Through My Bible Yr 01 – September 23

Through My Bible – September 23

Psalm 72 (EHV)

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¹ God, give your authority to judge to the King.
Give your righteousness to the Son of the King.
² He will judge your people with righteousness.
He will judge your afflicted ones with justice.
³ The mountains will deliver peace to the people.
The hills will produce righteousness.
⁴ He will obtain justice for the afflicted among the people.
He will save the children of the poor,
but he will crush the oppressor.

⁵ They will fear you ^[1] as long as the sun remains,
and as long as the moon endures, through all generations.
⁶ He will come down like rain on a mown field,
like showers, like a downpour on the earth.
⁷ In his days the righteous will flourish,
and peace will be plentiful till the moon is no more.

⁸ He will rule ^[2] from sea to sea
and from the River ^[3] to the ends of the earth.
⁹ Those who dwell in the desert will bow before him,
and his enemies will lick the dust.
¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the sea coasts will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer him gifts.
¹¹ All kings will bow down to him.
All nations will serve him.

¹² He will certainly deliver the poor person who cries out,
as well as the afflicted, and the one who has no helper.
¹³ He will take pity on the weak and the poor.
He will save the lives of the poor.
¹⁴ From oppression and violence he will redeem their lives,
because their blood is precious in his sight.

¹⁵ May the King live! ^[4]
May gold from Sheba be offered to him.
May people always pray for him.
May they bless him all day long.
¹⁶ Let there be an abundance of grain in the land.
Let it wave on the top of the mountains.
Let its fruit trees be like the cedars of Lebanon. ^[5]
Let people from the city flourish like the grass of the land.
¹⁷ May his name endure forever.
May his name flourish as long as the sun.
They will be blessed through him.
All nations will call him blessed.

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
    who alone does marvelous deeds.
¹⁹ Blessed be his glorious name forever.
May the whole earth be filled with his glory.

Footnotes

1. Psalm 72:5 The translation follows the Hebrew. The Greek Old Testament reads he will endure.
2. Psalm 72:8 Or may he rule. Hebrew verb forms in this section that are translated as prophecy could also be translated as prayer, for example, may he rule.
3. Psalm 72:8 That is, the Euphrates River
4. Psalm 72:15 The Hebrew has singular pronouns throughout. For clarity the implied nouns have been supplied in the translation.
5. Psalm 72:16 Hebrew let its fruit be like Lebanon