Give the king your justice, O God,
and your righteousness to a king’s son.
May he judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.
May the mountains yield prosperity for the people,
and the hills, in righteousness.
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the needy,
and crush the oppressor.
Again the interplay of tsedeq (righteousness) and mishpat (justice).
The son must find his tsedeq before becoming king, before becoming an agent of mishpat.
Guided by his own tsedeq the king honors the tsedeq of others, cultivating a shared respect for one another, a common commitment to one another, and in this way harvests the wholeness of peace.
Psalm 72
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