Of Solomon
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For Solomon
1-7 Give the king your justice, O God, and Your righteousness to the royal son! 2 May he judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with justice! 3 Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness! 4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! 5 May they fear You with the sun and before the moon throughout all generations! 6 May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth! 7 In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be needed no more!
8-11 May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! 9 May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust! 10 May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts! 11 May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
12-14 For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. 13 He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. 14 From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.
15-17 Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day! 16 May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field! 17 May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
18-19 Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. 19 Blessed be His glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with His glory! Amen and Amen!
Verse 5 May they fear You with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations!
עם שמש ולפני ירח
משיח = Mashiach
עם שמש ולפני ירח
ישוע = Yeshua
[Postscript:]
20 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
REFERENCES:
Verse 3
Genesis 3:17-18 And to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.”
Verse 5
Jeremiah 31:35-36 Thus says Adonai, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar – Adonai of Hosts is His name: “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares Adonai, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”
Jeremiah 33:19-21 The word of Adonai came to Jeremiah: “Thus says Adonai: “If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, then also My covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and My covenant with the Levitical priests My ministers.”
Verse 6
Genesis 17:20 “… [Ishmael] shall father twelve princes (נשיאים, nasi’im), and I will make him into a great nation.”
Psalm 135:7 He it is who makes the clouds (נשיאים, nasi’im) rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Proverbs 25:14 Like clouds (נשיאים, nasi’im) and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.
Verse 7
Isaiah 60:19-20 The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light, but Adonai will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself, for Adonai will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
Revelation 21:23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.