Psalms 45:1
My heart overflows with a good matter. I speak the things which I have made concerning the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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2 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.
Job 32:18for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me.
Job 34:4Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
Psalms 24:7Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 49:3My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Psalms 80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who lead Joseph like a flock. Thou who sit [above] the cherubim, shine forth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 45:1
This psalm is an illustrious prophecy of Messiah the Prince: it is all over gospel, and points at him only, as a bridegroom espousing the church to himself and as a king ruling in it and ruling for it. It is probable that our Saviour has reference to this psalm when he compares the kingdom of heaven, more than once, to a nuptial solemnity, the solemnity of a royal nuptial, Matt. xxii. 2 ; xxv. 1 . We have no reason to think it has any reference to Solomon's marriage with Pharaoh's daughter; if I thought that it… Read the whole commentary →