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 Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim; [a Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter: I speak the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

2 Your beauty is more than mortal, grace is shed over your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.

Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath 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, thy glory and thy majesty.

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 in thy majesty ride on prosperously, because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

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

Thine arrows are sharp; the peoples 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: a sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

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 wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

8 With myrrh, aloes, and cassia your robes are all fragrant, you are gladdened by music of ivory harps.

All thy garments [smell of] myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

9 King’s daughters stand ready with jewels for you, at your right hand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Kings’ daughters are among thy honourable women: at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

10 Listen, daughter, and see; and incline your ear: forget your folk and your father’s house.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

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

So shall the king desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

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

And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

13 The king’s daughter is glorious altogether, with dress of pearls inwrought with gold.

The king’s daughter within [the palace] is all glorious: her clothing is inwrought with gold.

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

She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

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

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

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

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

17 Your name will I celebrate world without end, so that nations shall praise you for ever and ever.

I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.