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In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
Psalms 45:4 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
  • BSB In your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may your right hand show your awesome deeds.
  • NKJV And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness; And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
  • NASB And in Your majesty ride on victoriously, For the cause of truth, humility, and righteousness; Let Your right hand teach You awesome things.
  • NLT In your majesty, ride out to victory, defending truth, humility, and justice. Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds!

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Quick answer

The king rides victoriously for truth, humility, and righteousness, his right hand doing awesome deeds. It matters because his cause is just, fulfilled perfectly in Christ.

Overview

The king advances not for conquest alone but on behalf of truth and righteousness, marked even by humility. His victories serve a moral cause. This is supremely true of Christ, the righteous King who in lowliness rides to triumph, establishing truth and justice through His saving reign.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • Ps 65:5By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;
  • Rev 19:11I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
  • Rev 6:2And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
  • Isa 59:17–18He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
  • Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Ps 60:4You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
  • 1 Th 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
  • Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
  • Rev 19:17–21I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,
  • Rev 11:18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
  • 2 Th 3:1Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
  • Ps 2:9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
  • Ps 110:2–3Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
  • 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
  • 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
  • Ps 21:8–9Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
  • 2 Th 1:8–9giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
  • John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • Rev 6:16–17They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
  • Isa 63:1–6Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
  • Matt 12:19–20He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
  • Ps 110:5–6The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
  • Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 45:4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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