Psalms 45:16
Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
In Context
15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
Cross References
Psalms 22:30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Isaiah 54:1Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
Matthew 19:29And every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Galatians 4:26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
1 Peter 2:9But all of you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, an exclusive people; that all of you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
Revelation 5:10And have made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 45:11-17
The Glory of the Church. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that… Read the whole commentary →