1 TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “LILIES.” AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. A SONG OF LOVES. My heart has stirred a good word, || I am telling my works to the King, || My tongue [is] the pen of a speedy writer. 2 You have been beautified above the sons of men, || Grace has been poured into Your lips, || Therefore God has blessed You for all time. 3 Gird Your sword on the thigh, O Mighty [One], || Your splendor and Your majesty! 4 As for Your majesty—prosper [and] ride! Because of truth, meekness, [and] righteousness, || And Your right hand shows You fearful things. 5 Your arrows [are] sharp—Peoples fall under You—In the heart of the enemies of the King. 6 Your throne, O God, [is for] all time and forever, || A scepter of uprightness || [Is] the scepter of Your kingdom. 7 You have loved righteousness and hate wickedness, || Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You || With oil of joy above Your companions. 8 Myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia || [Cover] all Your garments; Out of palaces of ivory, || Stringed instruments have made You glad. 9 Daughters of kings [are] among Your precious ones, || A queen has stood at Your right hand, || In pure gold of Ophir. 10 Listen, O daughter, and see, incline your ear, || And forget your people, and your father’s house, 11 And the King desires your beauty, || Because He [is] your Lord—bow yourself to Him, 12 And the daughter of Tyre with a present, || The rich of the people appease your face. 13 All glory [is] the daughter of the king within, || Her clothing [is] with filigrees of gold. 14 In various colors she is brought to the King; Afterward, virgins, her companions, || Are brought to You. 15 They are brought with joy and gladness, || They come into the palace of the King. 16 Instead of Your fathers are Your sons, || You appoint them for princes in all the earth. 17 I make mention of Your Name in all generations, || Therefore peoples praise You, || For all time and forever!
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Psalm 45 Literal Standard Version
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Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 49:3; 2 Samuel 23:2; Job 33:3; Proverbs 16:23; Job 32:18–20
- 2 Luke 4:22; Song of Songs 5:10–16; Psalm 21:6; John 7:46; Hebrews 7:26
- 3 Hebrews 4:12; Isaiah 49:2; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 19:15; Psalm 96:6
- 4 Psalm 65:5; Revelation 19:11; Revelation 6:2; Isaiah 59:17–18; Zechariah 9:9
- 5 Psalm 21:12; Numbers 24:8; Psalm 38:2; Zechariah 9:13–14; Psalm 22:27
- 6 Hebrews 1:8–9; Psalm 93:2; John 1:1; Isaiah 9:6–7; Jeremiah 33:15–16
- 7 Hebrews 1:9; Psalm 21:6; Isaiah 61:1–3; Psalm 33:5; Ephesians 1:3
- 8 Song of Songs 1:3; 2 Corinthians 2:14–16; John 19:39; Matthew 2:11; Song of Songs 4:6
- 9 Revelation 21:9; 1 Kings 2:19; Revelation 19:7; Ephesians 5:26–27; Revelation 21:2
- 10 Song of Songs 2:10–13; Genesis 12:1; Matthew 10:37; Matthew 19:29; 2 Corinthians 6:17–7:1
- 11 Psalm 95:6; Isaiah 54:5; Song of Songs 4:1–5; Zephaniah 3:17; Philippians 2:10–11
- 12 Psalm 22:29; Isaiah 60:3; Isaiah 23:17–18; Psalm 72:10; Isaiah 49:23
- 13 Revelation 19:7–8; Isaiah 61:10; Romans 3:22; Romans 13:14; Matthew 5:16
- 14 2 Corinthians 11:2; Song of Songs 8:13; Song of Songs 6:13; Song of Songs 2:7; Song of Songs 1:3–5
- 15 Revelation 7:15–17; Jude 24; Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 56:5
- 16 Revelation 5:10; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 1:6; Isaiah 60:1–5; Isaiah 49:21–22
- 17 Isaiah 62:3; Malachi 1:11; Psalm 72:17–19; Isaiah 61:9; Isaiah 59:21
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This Psalm is addressed "to the sons of Korah," as its title shows. Now Korah is equivalent to the word baldness; and we find in the Gospel that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified in "the place of a skull." It is clear then that this Psalm is sung to the "sons of His Passion.'" Now we have on this …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But our Lord is Himself the resurrection, as He does Himself declare, "I am the resurrection and the life." But the fathers are His children; for it is said by the prophet: "Instead of thy fathers, thy children have been made to thee." Christ Himself, therefore, together with the Father, is the God of the living, who spake to Moses, …
Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of exultation above Thy fellows;" that is, plainly, Christ above Christians.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Of this therefore the prophet discourses unto her, and saith, "Forget thy people, and thy father's house, so shall the king have pleasure in thy beauty." This Ruth did too, and because of this she became a mother of kings, even as the Church did likewise.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And for this reason, methinks, the Psalmist says to mankind, Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house, whom thou hast chosen for a father, whom thou hast drawn upon thyself to thy destruction.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)