Psalm 45

¹My 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.

²Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, thy glory and thy majesty.

⁴And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, because of truth and meekness andrighteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

⁵Thine arrows are sharp; the peoples fall under thee; they arein the heart of the king’s enemies.

⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

⁷Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

⁸All thy garments smell ofmyrrh, and aloes, andcassia; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

⁹Kings’ daughters are among thy honourable women: at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

¹¹So shall the king desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be therewith a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

¹³The king’s daughter within the palaceis all glorious: her clothing is inwrought with gold.

¹⁴She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.