Psalm 45, side by side

¹My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

¹My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

²You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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

³Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

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

⁴In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

⁴And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

⁵Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

⁵Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

⁶Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

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

⁷You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

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

⁸All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

⁸All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

⁹Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

⁹Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

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

¹¹So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

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

¹²The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

¹³The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

¹³The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

¹⁴She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

¹⁴She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

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

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

¹⁶Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

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

¹⁷I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.

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