Psalms 45

1 For the leader; on shoshannim. Of the Korahites. A maskil. A love song. My heart is astir with beautiful words: I will sing a song, concerning the king, with tongue like 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 Your beauty is more than mortal, grace is shed over your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.

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 Warrior, strap your sword on your thigh. What glory and splendour!

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

4 Good fortune attend you, as forth you ride in the cause of good faith, and as champion of justice. May your arm instruct you in deeds of dread.

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

5 Sharp are your arrows; nations fall under you: pierced to the heart are the foes of the king.

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 shall endure for ever and ever your royal sceptre a sceptre of equity.

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

7 Right you love and wrong you hate: therefore the Lord your God anoints you With 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 With myrrh, aloes, and cassia your robes are all fragrant, you are gladdened by music of ivory harps.

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

9 King’s daughters stand ready with jewels for you, at your right hand 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 Listen, daughter, and see; and incline your ear: forget your folk and your father’s house.

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

11 And when the king desires your beauty, bow to him, for he is your lord.

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

12 So shall the Tyrians come with gifts, and the richest of people will do you homage.

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 glorious altogether, with dress of pearls inwrought with gold.

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

14 In many-coloured robes she is led to the king, with the virgin companions she brought in her train.

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

15 The king’s palace they enter with joy and rejoicing.

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

16 May sons of yours take the place of your fathers, whom you will make princes in all the land.

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

17 Your name will I celebrate world without end, so that nations shall 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.