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¹ O God! thy justice, give, unto the king, And thy righteousness, unto the son of a king;

² May he judge, Thy people with righteousness; And thine oppressed ones with justice;³ May the mountains bring peace to the people, And the hills be laden with righteousness;⁴ May he, Vindicate the oppressed of the people, Bring deliverance to the children of the needy, and, Crush the oppressor.⁵ Let men revere thee, With the sun, And in presence of the moon, Unto the remotest generation.⁶ Let him come down, Like rain on fields to be mown, Like myriad drops on land to be reaped.⁷ May righteousness, in his days, blossom forth, And abundance of peace, till there be no moon.⁸ So let him have dominion, From sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth;⁹ Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the Coastlands, A gift, let them render, The kings of Sheba and Seba, A present, let them bring;¹¹ Yea let all kings, bow down unto him, Let, all nations, serve him;¹² Because he Rescueth, The needy from the rich, The oppressed, who hath no helper;¹³ He Pitieth the weak and the needy, And, the lives of the needy, he Saveth:¹⁴ From extortion, and, violence, he Redeemeth their life, And precious is their flood in his sight.¹⁵ Let him live, then! And be there given unto him of the gold of Sheba, - Let prayer also be offered for him continually, All the day, let him be blessed.¹⁶ May there be an abundance of corn in the earth, in the top of the mountains, - Let the fruit thereof, wave like Lebanon, And they of the city bloom like the fresh shoots of the earth.¹⁷ May his Name he age-abiding, In the presence of the sun, let his Name flourish, - And may all the families of the ground bless themselves in him, All nations, pronounce him happy!

¹⁸ Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, - Who doeth wondrous things by himself alone;¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious Name, unto times ago-abiding, - And filled with his glory be all the earth, Amen and Amen!²⁰ Ended are the prayers of David, son of Jesse.