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Psalms 72:2

Help the king judge your people fairly. Help him make wise decisions for your poor people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Gentiles;   Jesus, the Christ;   Judge;   Justice;   King;   Poor;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Missions, World-Wide;   The Topic Concordance - Government;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heathen;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judges;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hope;   Meekness;   Messiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Psalms;   Sin;   Solomon;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Naphtali;   Sabeans;   Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Jesus christ;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Poetry, Hebrew;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 4;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
May he render judgment to Your people with righteousnessAnd Your afflicted with justice.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
May he judge Your people with righteousness And Your afflicted with justice.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[Then] he wyll iudge thy people accordyng vnto iustice: and thy afflicted accordyng to equitie.
Darby Translation
He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thine afflicted with judgment.
New King James Version
He will judge Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with justice.
Literal Translation
Your people He shall judge in righteousness, and Your poor in justice.
World English Bible
He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
King James Version (1611)
Deliuer mee in thy righteousnesse, and cause me to escape: incline thine eare vnto me, and saue me.
King James Version
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That he maye gouerne thy people acordinge vnto right, and defende thy poore.
Amplified Bible
May he judge Your people with righteousness, And Your afflicted with justice.
American Standard Version
He will judge thy people with righteousness, And thy poor with justice.
Bible in Basic English
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
Update Bible Version
He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
Webster's Bible Translation
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
New English Translation
Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably.
Contemporary English Version
Let him be honest and fair with all your people, especially the poor.
Complete Jewish Bible
so that he can govern your people rightly and your poor with justice.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shal he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.
George Lamsa Translation
That he may judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with justice.
Hebrew Names Version
He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That he may judge Thy people with righteousness, and Thy poor with justice.
New Living Translation
Help him judge your people in the right way; let the poor always be treated fairly.
New Life Bible
May he be right when he decides who is right and who is wrong and may he be fair to the poor.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that he may judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
English Revised Version
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Berean Standard Bible
He will judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.
New Revised Standard
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
May he judge, Thy people with righteousness; And thine oppressed ones with justice;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(71-2) To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.
Lexham English Bible
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
English Standard Version
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
New American Standard Bible
May he judge Your people with righteousness And Your afflicted with justice.
New Century Version
Help him judge your people fairly and decide what is right for the poor.
Good News Translation
so that he will rule over your people with justice and govern the oppressed with righteousness.
Christian Standard Bible®
He will judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted ones with justice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, yyue thi doom to the king; and thi riytfulnesse to the sone of a king. To deme thi puple in riytfulnesse; and thi pore men in doom.
Young's Literal Translation
He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.
Revised Standard Version
May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!

Contextual Overview

2 Help the king judge your people fairly. Help him make wise decisions for your poor people. 3 Let there be peace and justice throughout the land, known on every mountain and hill. 4 May the king be fair to the poor. May he help the helpless and punish those who hurt them. 5 May people always fear and respect you, God, as long as the sun shines and the moon is in the sky. 6 Help the king be like rain falling on the fields, like showers falling on the land. 7 Let goodness grow everywhere while he is king. Let peace continue as long as there is a moon. 8 Let his kingdom grow from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the faraway places on earth. 9 May all the people living in the desert bow down to him. May all his enemies bow before him with their faces in the dirt. 10 May the kings of Tarshish and all the faraway lands by the sea bring gifts to him. May the kings of Sheba and Seba bring their tribute to him. 11 May all kings bow down to our king. May all nations serve him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He shall: Psalms 72:12-14, Psalms 45:6, Psalms 45:7, 1 Kings 3:5-10, Isaiah 11:3-5, Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 32:17, Jeremiah 33:15, Revelation 19:11

thy poor: Psalms 12:5, Psalms 82:3, Psalms 82:4, Job 34:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:2 - to decline 2 Samuel 8:15 - David executed 1 Kings 1:35 - I have 1 Kings 3:9 - to judge 1 Kings 3:28 - to do 1 Kings 10:9 - to do 2 Chronicles 9:8 - to do judgment Psalms 4:2 - how Psalms 19:9 - judgments Psalms 21:1 - The king Psalms 68:5 - a judge Psalms 74:19 - forget Psalms 85:13 - Righteousness Psalms 98:9 - with righteousness Psalms 99:4 - strength Psalms 119:66 - Teach me Proverbs 29:14 - king Proverbs 31:9 - General Isaiah 16:5 - judging Isaiah 42:3 - he shall Jeremiah 22:3 - Execute Jeremiah 23:5 - I Ezekiel 46:18 - the prince John 8:16 - yet John 14:27 - Peace I leave Acts 24:25 - righteousness 2 Thessalonians 1:5 - righteous

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall judge thy people with righteousness,.... Or, "so shall he judge"; or, "that he may judge" n, as the Syriac and Arabic versions; having the judgments and righteousness of God given him, he will be thereby qualified to judge the people of God; such as are so, not by creation, but by special grace; his chosen and covenant people, the redeemed and purchased people of God, and who in the effectual calling appear to be so, and are made his willing people. These Christ judges, rules, and governs, protects and defends, in a righteous manner; pleads their cause, vindicates their right, and avenges them on their enemies, as well as justifies them with his own righteousness;

and thy poor with judgment; justice and equity. Such who are literally poor, and are the Lord's poor, whom he has chosen, and makes rich in faith, and heirs of a kingdom; and with whom Christ, when here on earth, was chiefly concerned, and now is; and not with the great men and rulers of the earth: or such who are poor in spirit, sensible of their spiritual poverty; that find themselves hungry and thirsty, and destitute of righteousness, and without money, or anything to procure either. Or, "thine afflicted ones" o; such as are distressed in body or mind, with respect to things temporal or spiritual; oppressed by sin, Satan, and the world, These Christ regards, and administers justice to in his own time and way; see Isaiah 11:4.

n ידין "ut jus dicat", Tigurine version; so Ainsworth. o עניך "afflictos tuos", Montanus, Vatablus, Musculus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Tiguriue version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall judge thy people with righteousness - On this verse see the notes at Isaiah 11:3-4. The fact that this so entirely accords with the description in Isaiah 11:0, which undoubtedly refers to the Messiah, has been alluded to above as confirming the opinion that the psalm has a similar reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 72:2. He shall judge thy people with righteousness — With justice and mercy mixed, or according to equity.

And thy poor with judgment. — Every one according to the law which thou hast appointed; but with especial tenderness to the poor and afflicted.


 
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