⁰Of Solomon.

¹God, give your justice to the king and your righteousness to the king's son.

²May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

³May the mountains carry wholeness to the people, and the hills, with righteousness.

⁴He will judge the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor.

⁵They will fear you as long as the sun and before the moon, generation upon generations.

⁶He will come down like rain on mown grass, like showers, drops dripping on the land.

⁷In his days the righteous will bud, and an abundance of wholeness, until there is no moon.

⁸May he rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the land.

⁹Before him the desert-dwellers will crouch, and his enemies will lick up the dust.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will pay tribute; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring near a gift.

¹¹All kings will bow down to him, all nations will serve him.

¹²For he will rescue the needy who cries for help, and the poor who has no helper.

¹³He will take pity on the poor and the needy, and he will save the beings of the needy.

¹⁴From oppression and from violence he will redeem their being, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.

¹⁵May he live, and may some of the gold of Sheba be given to him; may people pray for him continually, and bless him all the day.

¹⁶May there be an abundance of grain in the land, on the top of the mountains; may its fruit wave like Lebanon, and may people blossom out of the city like the grass of the land.

¹⁷May his name be forever; before the sun may his name increase; and may people bless themselves by him; may all nations call him blessed.

¹⁸Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

¹⁹And blessed be the name of his weightiness forever, and may all the land be filled with his weightiness. Amen and amen.

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