O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice the king’s son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
He shall rescue the poor when they cry out,
and the afflicted when they have no one to help them.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.
Psalm 72