Psalms 45

1 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.

My 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.

2 You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

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

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

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

And in thy majesty ride triumphantly because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall shew thee dreadful things.

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

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

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

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

7 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

9 with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, [and] arrayed in various colors.

Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

10 Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, 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 Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord.

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

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth.

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

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

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