Psalm 72:5 {71:5}
Good News Translation
May your people worship you as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon gives light, for ages to come.

New Revised Standard Version
May he live while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

Contemporary English Version
Let the king live forever like the sun and the moon.

New American Bible
May they fear you with the sun, and before the moon, through all generations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations.

they shall

1 Samuel 12:18 And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day.

1 Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

as long

Psalm 72:7,17 In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. . . .

Psalm 89:29,36,37 And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. . . .

Isaiah 9:7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Daniel 2:44 But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be delivered up to another people: and it shall break in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms: and itself shall stand for ever.

Daniel 7:14,27 And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed. . . .

Luke 1:32,33 He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:24,25 Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all principality and power and virtue. . . .

Ephesians 3:21 To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations, world without end. Amen.

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
4He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. 5And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations.6He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:21
That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

Psalm 72:17
Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

Psalm 89:36
His seed shall endure for ever.

Psalm 89:37
And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

Psalm 72:4
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