Psalms 45
1 To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; — a song of the Beloved. My heart is welling forth [with] a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
To the ouercomere for the lilies, the most loued song of lernyng of the sones of Chore. Myn herte hath teld out a good word; Y seie my workis `to the kyng. Mi tunge is `a penne of a writere; writynge swiftli.
2 Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Crist, thou art fairer in schap than the sones of men; grace is spred abrood in thi lippis; therfor God blessid thee withouten ende.
3 Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O mighty one, [in] thy majesty and thy splendour;
Be thou gird with thi swerd; on thi hipe most myytili.
4 And [in] thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Biholde thou in thi schaplynesse and thi fairnesse; come thou forth with prosperite, and regne thou. For treuthe, and myldenesse, and riytfulnesse; and thi riyt hond schal lede forth thee wondurfuli.
5 Thine arrows are sharp — peoples fall under thee — in the heart of the king's enemies.
Thi scharpe arowis schulen falle in to the hertis of the enemyes of the kyng; puplis schulen be vndur thee.
6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom:
God, thi seete is in to the world of world; the yerde of thi rewme is a yerde of riyt reulyng, `ethir of equite.
7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.
Thou louedist riytfulnesse, and hatidist wickidnesse; therfor thou, God, thi God, anoyntide thee with the oile of gladnesse, more than thi felowis.
8 Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
Mirre, and gumme, and cassia, of thi clothis, of the `housis yuer;
9 Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
of whiche the douytris of kyngis delitiden thee. A queen stood nyy on thi riyt side in clothing ouergildid; cumpassid with dyuersitee.
10 Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:
Douyter, here thou, and se, and bowe doun thin eere; and foryete thi puple, and the hows of thi fadir.
11 And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.
And the kyng schal coueyte thi fairnesse; for he is thi Lord God, and thei schulen worschipe hym.
12 And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among the people, shall court thy favour.
And the douytris of Tire in yiftis; alle the riche men of the puple schulen biseche thi cheer.
13 All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:
Al the glorye of that douyter of the kyng is with ynne in goldun hemmes;
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:
sche is clothid aboute with dyuersitees. Virgyns schulen be brouyt to the kyng aftir hir; hir neiyboressis schulen be brouyt to thee.
15 With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace.
Thei schulen be brouyt in gladnesse, and ful out ioiyng; thei schulen be brouyt in to the temple of the kyng.
16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth.
Sones ben borun to thee, for thi fadris; thou schalt ordeyne hem princes on al erthe.
17 I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever.
Lord, thei schulen be myndeful of thi name; in ech generacioun, and in to generacioun. Therfor puplis schulen knouleche to thee withouten ende; and in to the world of world.
