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Psalms 44
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1(45) For the end, for alternate [strains] by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.
1My 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.
2You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
3Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty;
3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4and bend [your bow], and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully.
4And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) [they are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
6Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.
6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
7You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows.
7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
8Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia [are exhaled] from your garments, [and] out of the ivory palaces,
8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
9with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, [and] arrayed in various colors.
9Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house.
10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
11Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord.
11So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
12And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.
12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
13All her glory [is that] of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed [as she is] in golden fringed garments,
13The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14in embroidered [clothing]: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you.
14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
15They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.
15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
16Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth.
16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
17They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever.
17I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.