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