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 overflows with a good matter. I speak the things which I have made concerning 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 are fairer than the sons of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. Therefore God has blessed thee forever.

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

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, 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 on prosperously because of truth and gentleness and righteousness. And thy right hand shall teach thee awesome 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. The peoples 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 sceptre of righteousness.

Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of straightness is the scepter of thy kingdom.

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

Thou have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

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 ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

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

Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women. At thy right hand stands 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 will the king desire thy beauty, for he is thy lord, and reverence thou him.

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

And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with a gift. The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

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

Inside, the king's daughter is all glorious. Her clothing is embroidered with gold.

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

She shall be led to the king in broidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to thee.

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

With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. 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 sons, whom thou shall make rulers 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 the peoples shall give thee thanks forever and ever.