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Psalm 72

¹Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
²He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
³The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
⁵They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
⁶He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
⁷In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
⁸He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
⁹They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
¹¹Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
¹²For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
¹³He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
¹⁴He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
¹⁵And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
¹⁶There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
¹⁷His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
¹⁸Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

⁹Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
¹⁰To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
¹¹Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
¹²And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
¹³For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
¹⁴They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
¹⁵Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
¹⁶Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
¹⁷Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
¹⁸Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
¹⁹Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
²⁰To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
²¹Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

⁴⁵Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
⁴⁶But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
⁴⁷Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
⁴⁹And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
⁵⁰Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
⁵¹And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
⁵²And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
⁵³Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
⁵⁵And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
⁵⁶Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
⁵⁷Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.