A psalm for Solomon
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📚✭✭Give the king your judgments,O God,
and your righteousness
to the king’s son.
2 📚He will judge your people
with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.
3 📚✭The mountains will bring peace
to the people, and the little hills,
through righteousness.
4 📚He will judge the poor
of the people.
He will save the children
of the needy,
and will break the oppressor
in pieces.
5 📚✭They will fear you as long
as the sun and moon endure,
throughout all generations.
6 📚✭He will come down like rain
on the mown grass,
like showers that water
the earth.
7 📚✭In his days the righteous will
flourish,
and abundance of peace as long
as the moon endures.
8 📚✭And he will rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends
of the earth.
9 📚Those who dwell in the wilderness
will bow before him,
and his enemies will lick the dust.
10 📚The kings of Tarshish and
of the islands✭ will bring presents.
The kings of Sheba and
Seba will offer gifts.
11 📚Yes, all kings will fall down
before him,
all nations will serve him.
12 📚✭For he will rescue the needy
when he cries out,
also the poor and the one
who has no helper.
13 📚He will spare the poor and
needy and save the souls
of the needy.
14 📚He will redeem their soul
from deceit and violence,
and their blood will
be precious in his sight.
15 📚✭And he will live on, and to him
the gold of Sheba will be given;
also prayer will be made for him✭
continually,
and daily he will be praised.
16 📚✭There will be an abundance
of grain in the earth on the top
of the mountains;
its fruit will wave like the cedars
of Lebanon;
and those of the city will
flourish like the grass of the earth.
17 📚✭His name will endure forever,
his name will go on as long as
the sun;
and men will be blessed
in him.
All nations will call him
blessed.
18 📚✭Blessed be the LORD God,
the God of Israel,
who alone does wonderful things!
19 📚And blessed be his glorious name
forever!
And let the whole earth be filled
with his glory!
Amen, and Amen.
20 📚✭The prayers of David,
the son of Jesse, are ended.