Psalm 45:1–16

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 and righteousness:

And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

⁵Thine arrows are sharp;

The peoples fall under thee;

They are in 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 of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia;

Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

⁹Kings’ daughters are among thy honorable 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 will the king desire thy beauty;

For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him.

¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;

The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

¹³The king’s daughter within the palace is 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.