Catholic Public Domain Version

Psalm 71:2-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

2. Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king's son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

3. Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.

4. He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

5. And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation.

6. He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.

7. In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.

8. And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.

9. In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.

10. The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.

11. And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him.

12. For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.