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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 Catholic Public Domain 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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/72-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Endow the King with Your Justice<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_kings/3.htm">1 Kings 3:1–15</a>; <a href ="../2_chronicles/1.htm">2 Chronicles 1:1–13</a>; <a href ="../psalms/45.htm">Psalm 45:1–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><V 71:1>A Psalm according to Solomon.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><V 71:2>Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><V 71:3>Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><V 71:4>He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><V 71:5>And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><V 71:6>He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><V 71:7>In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><V 71:8>And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><V 71:9>In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><V 71:10>The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><V 71:11>And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><V 71:12>For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><V 71:13>He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><V 71:14>He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><V 71:15>And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><V 71:16>And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><V 71:17>May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><V 71:18>Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><V 71:19>And blessed is the name of his majesty in eternity. And all the earth will be filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/72-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><V 71:20>The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/71.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 71"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 71" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/73.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 73"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 73" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>