Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king's son.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Psalm. Some copies add, "of David. "But the Hebrew has only Lishlomo, "to Solomon "(St. Jerome; Haydock) or, composed by Solomon. The former sense is more generally adopted, (Berthier) though the Chaldean and Eusebius look upon the latter as most plausible. David, however, seems to have written this last most beautiful piece, when he placed his son upon the throne; (3 Kings i. 47.) and being transported with a divine enthusiasm, he described the reign of the Messias, (Calmet) to whom alone many of the passages can be applied, (St. Augustine; Worthington) as the Jews, Chaldean, Kimchi, confess, though they will not allow Jesus to be the Christ, ver. 5, 11, 17. (Calmet)
