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Psalm 45:8

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45:8All your garments are perfumed with24 myrrh, aloes, and cassia.

From the luxurious palaces25 comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy.26

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Footnotes

  1. 24 The words “perfumed with” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
  2. 25 Heb “the palaces of ivory.” The phrase “palaces of ivory” refers to palaces that had ivory panels and furniture decorated with ivory inlays. Such decoration with ivory was characteristic of a high level of luxury. See 1 Kgs 22:39 and Amos 3:15.
  3. 26 Heb “from the palaces of ivory stringed instrument[s] make you happy.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.

From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;

from palaces adorned with ivory

the music of the strings makes you glad.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Myrrh, aloes, and cassia perfume all your garments;

from ivory palaces harps bring you joy.

NLTNew Living Translation

Myrrh, aloes, and cassia perfume your robes.

In ivory palaces the music of strings entertains you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

All your robes are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia.

From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you.

KJV 1900King James Version

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia,

Out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.