Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 72:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 72:2: Within “Prayer for a king who defends the poor: The king judged by justice for poor people,” the line “He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with…” supplies one distinct parallel claim, image, address, or response.
Read It With
- Psalms 72:1–17
- Psalms 72:1–20
Read Psalms 72:2 with 72:1–17 and 72:1–20. Read alone, “He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment” could lose the royal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 72:1–17, the royal voice carries the movement “The king judged by justice for poor people” as part of “Prayer for a king who defends the poor.” Its royal-prayer form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Continue in Context
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Read Psalms 72:1–17 — Prayer for a king who defends the poor: The king judged by justice for poor peopleSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 72:1–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 72:1–17
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