Psalms 45

1 My heart is composing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

For the end, for alternate [strains] by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.

Thou art more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on thy lips: therefore God has blessed thee for ever.

3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O Mighty One, in thy comeliness, and in thy beauty;

4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.

and bend [thy bow], and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall guide thee wonderfully.

5 your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under you.

Thy weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under thee) [they are] in the heart of the king's enemies.

6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a right sceptre.

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.

7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy fellows.

8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.

Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia [are exhaled] from thy garments, [and] out of the ivory palaces,

9 Kings' daughters were among your honourable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

with which kings' daughters have gladdened thee for thine honour: the queen stood by on thy right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, [and] arrayed in divers colours.

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father's house;

Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; forget also thy people, and thy father's house.

11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and worship you him.

Because the king has desired thy beauty; for he is thy Lord.

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall implore your favour.

And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate thy favour.

13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

All her glory [is that] of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed [as she is] in golden fringed garments,

14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.

in embroidered [clothing]: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to thee.

15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.

16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.

Instead of thy fathers children are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.

17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.

They shall make mention of thy name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to thee for ever, even for ever and ever.