What does Psalms Chapter 71 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The Latin incipit is Deus, judicium tuum. The speaker’s requests, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording. Edition interpretation remains separate, and the chapter does not establish a universal outcome guarantee.

Chapter breakdown

The Latin incipit is Deus, judicium tuum. The separate heading interprets Christ's kingdom prefigured by Solomon; the inscription is a psalm on Solomon. The speaker asks judgment for king and justice for king's son to judge people and poor, peace for mountains and justice for hills. The king shall judge poor, save their children and humble oppressor, continue with sun and moon through generations and come like rain on fleece and gentle showers.

Justice and abundant peace shall grow until moon's removal. He shall rule sea to sea and from the river, which is not named Euphrates here, to earth's ends. Ethiopians shall fall and enemies lick ground. Tharsis and islands' kings shall give presents, Arabians and Saba gifts, all kings adore and nations serve. He shall deliver poor from mighty and needy without helper, spare and save souls and redeem from usuries and iniquity, their names honorable. Life, Arabian gold, continual adoration and blessing are anticipated.

A firmament on earth's mountaintops, fruit above Libanus and flourishing city people receive a separate possible interpretation of Christ's firm visible church and congregation. His name is wished blessed forever, continuing before sun; tribes shall be blessed and nations magnify. The closing blesses Israel's God of wonders and His majesty, with earth's future fullness and repeated So be it. David son of Jesse's praises end; the note infers this was his last composition chronologically, without supplying a deathbed, coronation order or date.

The story inside

Opening: The Latin incipit is Deus, judicium tuum. Development: The speaker’s requests, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording. Conclusion: Edition interpretation remains separate, and the chapter does not establish a universal outcome guarantee.

Lessons worth keeping

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The Latin incipit is Deus, judicium tuum.
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The speaker’s requests, recollections and future declarations retain their distinct wording.
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Edition interpretation remains separate, and the chapter does not establish a universal outcome guarantee.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 62057–62058
71:2. Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king’s son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.
Lines 62069–62070
71:6. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth.
Lines 62087–62088
71:12. For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.