Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases

¹O Lord, thy judgments give the king,

his son thy righteousness.

²With right he shall thy people judge,

thy poor with uprightness.

³The lofty mountains shall bring forth

unto the people peace;

Likewise the little hills the same

shall do by righteousness.

⁴The people’s poor ones he shall judge,

the needy’s children save;

And those shall he in pieces break

who them oppressed have.

⁵They shall thee fear, while sun and moon

do last, through ages all.

⁶Like rain on mown grass he shall drop,

or show’rs on earth that fall.

⁷The just shall flourish in his days,

and prosper in his reign:

He shall, while doth the moon endure,

abundant peace maintain.

⁸His large and great dominion shall

from sea to sea extend:

It from the river shall reach forth

unto earth’s utmost end.

⁹They in the wilderness that dwell

bow down before him must;

And they that are his enemies

shall lick the very dust.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish, and the isles,

to him shall presents bring;

And unto him shall offer gifts

Sheba’s and Seba’s king.

¹¹Yea, all the mighty kings on earth

before him down shall fall;

And all the nations of the world

do service to him shall.

¹²For he the needy shall preserve,

when he to him doth call;

The poor also, and him that hath

no help of man at all.

¹³The poor man and the indigent

in mercy he shall spare;

He shall preserve alive the souls

of those that needy are.

¹⁴Both from deceit and violence

their soul he shall set free;

And in his sight right precious

and dear their blood shall be.

¹⁵Yea, he shall live, and giv’n to him

shall be of Sheba’s gold:

For him still shall they pray, and he

shall daily be extoll’d.

¹⁶Of corn an handful in the earth

on tops of mountains high,

With prosp’rous fruit shall shake, like trees

on Lebanon that be.

The city shall be flourishing,

her citizens abound

In number shall, like to the grass

that grows upon the ground.

¹⁷His name for ever shall endure;

last like the sun it shall:

Men shall be bless’d in him, and bless’d

all nations shall him call.

¹⁸Now blessed be the Lord our God,

the God of Israel,

For he alone doth wondrous works,

in glory that excel.

¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name

to all eternity:

The whole earth let his glory fill.

Amen, so let it be.