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Psalm 45 · Book Two · the sons of Korah

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies.” A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A love song.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

Maskil · For the choirmaster

About this psalm

A love song, set to a tune called The Lilies. It is a marriage psalm for a king — his sword, his throne, his robes smelling of myrrh and aloes, the queen in gold of Ophir, the bride told to forget her own people. Hebrews quotes its sixth and seventh verses and applies them to the Son. The psalmist opens by saying his tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Read it at a wedding, or when Christ and his church need a picture.

My psalms

One verse at a time, slowly

¹My heart is inditing a good matter:I speak of the things which I have made touching the king:my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.²Thou art fairer than the children of men:grace is poured into thy lips:therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.⁴And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness;and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.⁵Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies;whereby the people fall under thee.⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.⁷Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.⁸All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.⁹Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women:upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;¹¹So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty:for he is thy Lord;and worship thou him.¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.¹³The king’s daughter is all glorious within:her clothing is of wrought gold.¹⁴She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:they shall enter into the king’s palace.¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

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