Today was the vigil for Epiphany. I am unsure if this means the display of Christ to the world, or the manifestation of the Divine in Christ - the latter implies a holdover of Adoptionism. Anyway. Psalm/OT correlation!
The Psalm was #72-MT, "Elohist". This prays God to grant judgement to the king and righteousness to the king's son. Christians, I think, read this as God the Dayyan, advised by a more idealistic crown prince who might see extenuations as the king missed. A Protestant would dislike this psalm on account it implies one can intercede with the king: here through his son, but why not his mother or any other saint.
Also interesting is the hope that this royal family will rule all the nations as trade with the king, from Tarshish (Tartessos) to Saba.
Old-Testament was Isaiah 60. Many themes of the psalm recur here: Saba bringing gifts, and then Tarshish is mentioned. Classically Psalm 72 would be considered Davidic such that Isaiah himself postdated it. Nowadays I don't know if Psalm 72 be dated prior to king Hezeqiah. I do know that Isaiah 60 is considered far, far posterior: scholarship has marked it after the second Isaiah 40-55 which hails shah Cyrus II. And then later psalms will use TritoIsaiah.
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