¹⁰ Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

¹ Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

² A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

¹² Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

⁷ You who turn justice to wormwood, And cast down righteousness to the earth:

⁴ They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

¹² It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, For the throne is established by righteousness.

¹³ Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

⁴ The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

¹ > God, give the king your justice; Your righteousness to the royal son.

² He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.

³ The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

⁴ He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.

⁶ Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

⁷ You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

²⁸ All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

³ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: One who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,

⁴ [He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springs] out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.

¹⁸ It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:

¹⁹ and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

²⁰ that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

¹⁵ Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

⁵ Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"