¹A Psalm of Solomon.

O God, give your judicial principles to the king,

And your righteous standard to the king's son.

²He will judge your people righteously,

And those of yours who are poor, justly.

³The mountains will bring peace to the people,

As will the hills, in righteousness.

⁴He will judge those of the people who are poor;

He will save the sons of the needy

And crush the oppressor.

⁵They will fear you

When they are in the company of the sun,

And when they are in the presence of the moon,

For generation upon generation.

⁶He will come down like rain on mown grass

– Like showers that drench the earth.

⁷The righteous man will blossom in his days,

As will an abundance of peace,

Until the moon is no more.

⁸And he will have dominion from sea to sea,

And from the river to the ends of the earth.

⁹The inhabitants of the desert will bow down before him,

And his enemies will lick the dust.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will bring an offering;

The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer a gift.

¹¹And all the kings will prostrate themselves before him;

All nations will serve him.

¹²For he will deliver the poor man who cries out,

And the needy who has no-one to help him.

¹³He will have pity on the destitute and poor,

And he will save the lives of the poor.

¹⁴He will redeem their lives from oppression and violence,

And their blood will be precious in his eyes.

¹⁵May he live,

And may they give him gold of Sheba,

And may they pray for him constantly

And bless him all day long.

¹⁶May there be an abundance of grain in the land;

May his fruit sway on the mountain summits as in Lebanon,

And may plants of the city bloom like the vegetation of the earth.

¹⁷May his name be age-abiding;

May his name in the presence of the sun give rise to posterity,

And may they be blessed through him.

May all nations call him blessed.

¹⁸Blessed be the Lord God

– The God of Israel –

Who works wondrous deeds on his own.

¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name age-abidingly,

And may the whole earth be filled with his glory.

Amen and amen.

²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are completed.