45 My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter;
^[b]I speak the things which I have made touching the king:
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
² Thou art fairer than the children of men;
Grace is poured ^[c]into thy lips:
Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
³ Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,
Thy glory and thy majesty.
⁴ And in thy majesty ride on prosperously,
^[d]Because of truth and meekness and righteousness:
And ^[e]thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
⁵ Thine arrows are sharp;
The peoples fall under thee;
They are in the heart of the king’s enemies.
^6 [f]Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:
A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
⁷ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness:
Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
⁸ All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia;
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
⁹ Kings’ daughters are among thy honorable women:
At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house:
¹¹ So will the king desire thy beauty;
For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him.
¹² And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;
The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.
¹³ The king’s daughter ^[g]within the palace is all glorious:
Her clothing is inwrought with gold.
¹⁴ She shall be led unto the king ^[h]in broidered work:
The virgins her companions that follow her
Shall be brought unto thee.
¹⁵ With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led:
They shall enter into the king’s palace.
¹⁶ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,
Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.
¹⁷ I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.