Geneva Bible (1599): Psalm 72

¶ ¹ A Psalme of Salomon. Give thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne.

² Then shall he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

³ The mountaines and the hilles shall bring peace to the people by iustice.

⁴ He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shall subdue the oppressor.

⁵ They shall feare thee as long as the sunne and moone endureth, from generatio to generation.

⁶ He shall come downe like the rayne vpon the mowen grasse, and as the showres that water the earth.

⁷ In his dayes shall the righteous florish, and abundance of peace shalbe so long as the moone endureth.

⁸ His dominion shall be also from sea to sea, and from the Riuer vnto the endes of the land.

⁹ They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.

¹⁰ The Kings of Tarshish and of the yles shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring giftes.

¹¹ Yea, all Kings shall worship him: all nations shall serue him.

¹² For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.

¹³ He shalbe mercifull to the poore and needie, and shall preserue the soules of the poore.

¹⁴ He shall redeeme their soules from deceite and violence, and deare shall their blood be in his sight.

¹⁵ Yea, he shall liue, and vnto him shall they giue of the golde of Sheba: they shall also pray for him continually, and dayly blesse him.

¹⁶ An handfull of corne shall be sowen in the earth, euen in the toppe of the mountaines, and the fruite thereof shall shake like the trees of Lebanon: and the children shall florish out of the citie like the grasse of the earth.

¹⁷ His name shall be for euer: his name shall indure as long as the sunne: all nations shall blesse him, and be blessed in him.

¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord God, euen the God of Israel, which onely doeth wonderous things.

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious Name for euer: and let all the earth be filled with his glorie. So be it, euen so be it. HERE END THE prayers of Dauid, the sonne of Ishai.