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Your right hand, O Lord, magnificent in power,
    your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.

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Your right hand,(A) Lord,
    was majestic in power.
Your right hand,(B) Lord,
    shattered(C) the enemy.

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16     the Lord’s right hand is raised;
    the Lord’s right hand works valiantly.”

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16     The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
    the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”

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I

O God, give your judgment to the king;
    your justice to the king’s son;[a](A)
That he may govern your people with justice,
    your oppressed with right judgment,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 72:2 The king…the king’s son: the crown prince is the king’s son; the prayer envisages the dynasty.

May he judge your people in righteousness,(A)
    your afflicted ones with justice.

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May he be like rain coming down upon the fields,
    like showers watering the earth,(A)

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May he be like rain(A) falling on a mown field,
    like showers watering the earth.

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17 May his name be forever;
    as long as the sun, may his name endure.(A)
May the tribes of the earth give blessings with his name;[a]
    may all the nations regard him as favored.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 72:17 May the tribes of the earth give blessings with his name: an echo of the promise to the ancestors (Gn 12:3; 26:4; 28:14), suggesting that the monarchy in Israel fulfilled the promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

17 May his name endure forever;(A)
    may it continue as long as the sun.(B)

Then all nations will be blessed through him,[a]
    and they will call him blessed.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 72:17 Or will use his name in blessings (see Gen. 48:20)