Psalms 45:1

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

In Context

2My heart hath uttered a good word I speak my works to the king; My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2The spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me and his word by my tongue.

Job 32:18Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

Job 34:4Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.

Psalms 24:7Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

Psalms 49:3All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

Psalms 80:1Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

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 →

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