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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 72 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/72.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/72-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Psalm 72</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/71.htm" title="Psalm 71">◄</a> Psalm 72 <a href="../psalms/73.htm" title="Psalm 73">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/72-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>BY SOLOMON. O God, give Your judgments to the king, "" And Your righteousness to the king’s Son.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He judges Your people with righteousness, "" And Your poor with judgment.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The mountains bear peace to the people, "" And the heights by righteousness.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He judges the poor of the people, "" Gives deliverance to the sons of the needy, "" And bruises the oppressor.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They fear You with the sun, and before the moon, "" Generation—generations.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He comes down as rain on mown grass, "" As showers—sprinkling the earth.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The righteous flourish in His days, "" And abundance of peace until the moon is not.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And He rules from sea to sea, "" And from the river to the ends of the earth.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Desert-dwellers bow before Him, "" And His enemies lick the dust.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Kings of Tarshish and of the islands send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba bring a reward near.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And all kings bow themselves to Him, "" All nations serve Him,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For He delivers the needy who cries, "" And the poor when he has no helper,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He has pity on the poor and needy, "" And He saves the souls of the needy,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He redeems their soul from fraud and from violence, "" And their blood is precious in His eyes.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And He lives, and the gold of Sheba [is] given to Him, "" And prayer is continually made for Him, "" All day He is continually blessed.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>There is a handful of grain in the earth, "" On the top of mountains, "" Its fruit shakes like Lebanon, "" And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>His Name is for all time, "" Before the sun is His Name continued, "" And they bless themselves in Him, "" All nations pronounce Him blessed.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Blessed is YHWH God, God of Israel, "" He alone is doing wonders,<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And blessed [is] the Name of His glory for all time, "" And the whole earth is filled [with] His glory. Amen and amen!<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-20.htm"><b></b></a></span>The prayers of David son of Jesse have been ended.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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