1: Give the gift of wise rule to the king, O God, the gift of just rule to the crown prince.
2: May he judge your people rightly, be honorable to your meek and lowly.
3: Let the mountains give exuberant witness; shape the hills with the contours of right living.
4: Please stand up for the poor, help the children of the needy, come down hard on the cruel tyrants.
5: Outlast the sun, outlive the moon--age after age after age.
6: Be rainfall on cut grass, earth-refreshing rain showers.
7: Let righteousness burst into blossom and peace abound until the moon fades to nothing.
8: Rule from sea to sea, from the River to the Rim.
9: Foes will fall on their knees before God, his enemies lick the dust.
10: Kings remote and legendary will pay homage, kings rich and resplendent will turn over their wealth.
11: All kings will fall down and worship, and godless nations sign up to serve him,
12: Because he rescues the poor at the first sign of need, the destitute who have run out of luck.
13: He opens a place in his heart for the down--and-out, he restores the wretched of the earth.
14: He frees them from tyranny and torture--when they bleed, he bleeds; when they die, he dies.
15: And live! Oh, let him live! Deck him out in Sheba gold. Offer prayers unceasing to him, bless him from morning to night.
16: Fields of golden grain in the land, cresting the mountains in wild exuberance, Cornucopias of praise, praises springing from the city like grass from the earth.
17: May he never be forgotten, his fame shine on like sunshine. May all godless people enter his circle of blessing and bless the One who blessed them.
18: Blessed GOD, Israel's God, the one and only wonder-working God!
19: Blessed always his blazing glory! All earth brims with his glory.
20: Yes and Yes and Yes. An Asaph psalm