Psalm 72:1 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹ Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king's son.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Give the king thy judgments, O God, And thy righteousness unto the king's son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ GIVE THE king [knowledge of] Your [way of] judging, O God, and [the spirit of] Your righteousness to the king's son [to control all his actions].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Give the king thy judgments, O God, And thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

Common English Bible

¹ God, give your judgments to the king. Give your righteousness to the king’s son.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ A Psalm of Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to those who are upright in heart.

Psalm 72:1 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of Israel has said to me: One who rules over people justly, ruling in the fear of God,

1 Kings 1:39

There the priest Zadok took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 3:9

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?”

1 Chronicles 18:14

So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and equity to all his people.

1 Chronicles 22:9

See, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of peace. I will give him peace from all his enemies on every side; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to my son Solomon that with single mind he may keep your commandments, your decrees, and your statutes, performing all of them, and that he may build the temple for which I have made provision.”

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of yours?”

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Isaiah 11:2

The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

John 3:34

He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.