Here we have the poor mentioned side by side with the king. Partiality has been too often shown to rich and great men, but the King of the last and best of monarchies deals out even handed justice, to the delight of the poor and despised. We do not always understand his doings, but they are always right. " And thy poor with judgment." True wisdom is manifest in all the decisions of Zion's King. What a consolation to feel that none can suffer wrong in Christ's kingdom: he sits upon the great white throne, unspotted by a single deed of injustice, or even mistake of judgment: reputations are safe enough with him. His sentence shall put their accusers to silence, and award the saints their true position as the accepted of the Lord. " He shall judge thy people with righteousness." Clothed with divine authority, he shall use it on the behalf of the favoured nation, for whom he shall show himself strong, that they be not misjudged, slandered, or in any way treated maliciously. Now wars and fightings are even in Israel itself, but soon the dispensation will change, and David, the type of Jesus warring with our enemies, shall be displaced by Solomon the prince of peace. May the Lord hasten on his own time the long looked for day. He is the righteous king in a word, he is "the Lord our righteousness." We are waiting till he shall be manifested among men as the ever righteous Judge. He has power and authority in himself, and also royal dignity given of his Father. " And thy righteousness unto the king's son." Solomon was both king and king's son so also is our Lord. He is king "Dei Gratia" as well as by right of inheritance. He rules in the name of God over all lands. Our glorious King in Zion hath all judgment committed unto him. " Give the king thy judgments, O God." The right to reign was transmitted by descent from David to Solomon, but not by that means alone: Israel was a theocracy, and the kings were but the viceroys of the greater King hence the prayer that the new king might be enthroned by divine right, and then endowed with divine wisdom. "A glowing description of the reign of Messiah as righteous, Psa 72:1-7 universal, Psa 72:8-11 beneficent, Psa 72:12-14 and perpetual, Psa 72:15-17 to which are added a doxology, Psa 72:18-19 and a postscript, Psa 72:20." Jesus is here, beyond all doubt, in the glory of his reign, both as he now is, and as he shall be revealed in the latter day glory.ĭIVISION.-We shall follow the division suggested by Alexander. It is, we conjecture, the Prayer of David, but the Psalm of Solomon. With some diffidence we suggest that the spirit and matter of the Psalm are David's, but that he was too near his end to pen the words, or cast them into form: Solomon, therefore, caught his dying father's song, fashioned it in goodly verse, and, without robbing his father, made the Psalm his own. It is pretty certain that the title declares Solomon to be the author of the Psalm, and yet from Psa 72:20 it would seem that David uttered it in prayer before he died. There is not sufficient ground for the rendering for. The best linguists affirm that this should be rendered, of or by Solomon.