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Chapter 45
Psal OEB 45:1  My heart is astir with beautiful words: I will sing a song, concerning the king, with tongue like the pen of a ready writer.
Psal OEB 45:2  Your beauty is more than mortal, grace is shed over your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
Psal OEB 45:3  Warrior, strap your sword on your thigh. What glory and splendour!
Psal OEB 45:4  Good fortune attend you, as forth you ride in the cause of good faith, and as champion of justice. May your arm instruct you in deeds of dread.
Psal OEB 45:5  Sharp are your arrows; nations fall under you: pierced to the heart are the foes of the king.
Psal OEB 45:6  Your throne shall endure for ever and ever your royal sceptre a sceptre of equity.
Psal OEB 45:7  Right you love and wrong you hate: therefore the Lord your God anoints you With oil of gladness above your fellows.
Psal OEB 45:8  With myrrh, aloes, and cassia your robes are all fragrant, you are gladdened by music of ivory harps.
Psal OEB 45:9  King’s daughters stand ready with jewels for you, at your right hand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Psal OEB 45:10  Listen, daughter, and see; and incline your ear: forget your folk and your father’s house.
Psal OEB 45:11  And when the king desires your beauty, bow to him, for he is your lord.
Psal OEB 45:12  So shall the Tyrians come with gifts, and the richest of people will do you homage.
Psal OEB 45:13  The king’s daughter is glorious altogether, with dress of pearls inwrought with gold.
Psal OEB 45:14  In many-coloured robes she is led to the king, with the virgin companions she brought in her train.
Psal OEB 45:15  The king’s palace they enter with joy and rejoicing.
Psal OEB 45:16  May sons of yours take the place of your fathers, whom you will make princes in all the land.
Psal OEB 45:17  Your name will I celebrate world without end, so that nations shall praise you for ever and ever.