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Your right hand, O Lord, magnificent in power,
    your right hand, O Lord, shattered 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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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 be like rain coming down upon the fields,
    like showers watering the earth,(A)

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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.