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Psalms 45

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song. My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. ✦ 2You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever. ✦ 3Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty. ✦ 4In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds. ✦ 5Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies. ✦ 6Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom. ✦ 7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. ✦ 8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad. ✦ 9Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir. ✦ 10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house. ✦ 11So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord. ✦ 12The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor. ✦ 13The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. ✦ 14She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you. ✦ 15With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. 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. ✦ 17I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Song 1 ·7Rev 19 ·7Song 6 ·6Song 4 ·6Isa 60 ·6Ps 72 ·5Song 2 ·5Isa 61 ·5

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 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.

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 45YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 45David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 45Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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