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God, grant Your judgments to the king and Your righteousness to the king\u2019s son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the magisterial of the royal psalms. The editorial linkage with Solomon at the beginning no doubt reflects the tradition regarding the imperial grandeur of the Solomonic reign. The last line of the postscript (verse 20) appears to encourage the notion that David is the author. Thus, the medieval Hebrew exegete David Kimchi, noting the coupled terms \u201cking\u201d and \u201cking\u2019s son\u201d: \u201cThis psalm was composed by David about his son Solomon.\u201d Although there is a line of interpreters who read this text as a \u201cmessianic\u201d psalm, the poem itself offers no compelling evidence for that reading. Court poetry everywhere revels in flattering hyperbole, so the vision of the king\u2019s reigning forever to the ends of the earth and dispensing perfect justice could easily be a prayer on behalf of a flesh-and-blood monarch, without eschatological intentions.<\/p>\n<p>From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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