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Psalms 45:11

so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty, taking pleasure in her for the beauty of her obedience, her finest and most precious ornament; for He is thy Lord, who has made her His own by the shedding of His precious blood; and worship thou Him, giving Him the honor due Him as the great Lord and serving Him in the beauty of holiness.

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See also Psalms 45:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SO SHALL THE KING GREATLY DESIRE THY BEAUTY - That is, in consequence of your love to him, and your entire devotion of yourself to him. The word “desire” here is equivalent to having pleasure in; as m...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 45 The Answer: The King Messiah and His Glory _ 1. The King in His majesty and power (Psalms 45:1)_ 2. His throne and His glory (Psalms 45:6) 3. With the King, sharing His glory and kingdo...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XLV. A ROYAL MARRIAGE SONG. This Ps. owes its place in the Canon to that allegorical interpretation which has been accepted by the Synagogue and the Church, the Messiah being the bridegroom and Israel...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The poet addresses the bride, counselling her to forget her old home and surrender herself with complete devotion to her husband, and describing the honours which await her....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty_ Omit _greatly._ worship thou him Better, do him homage: not necessarily in the literal sense of prostrating herself before him (1Sa 25:41; 1 Kings 1:16;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 577 THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH AS MARRIED TO CHRIST Psalms 45:10. _Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house. So shall the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HEARKEN, O DAUGHTER, &C.— The prophet here addresses himself to the bride, that is, the church, Psalms 45:13. _Thine own people, and thy father's house,_ means, "the religion of the country in which t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 45 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Royal Marriage. ANALYSIS Stanza I., vet. 1, The Psalmist bespeaks Attention to his Poem. Stanza II., Psalms 45:2, The King's Surpassing. Beauty and Gracious Discourse...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SO SHALL THE KING GREATLY DESIRE THY BEAUTY: FOR HE IS THY LORD; AND WORSHIP THOU HIM._ So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord - Hebrew, 'And let the King (be given, by thy...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The poem celebrates the marriage of a king. After the prelude (Psalms 45:1) come addresses to the royal bridegroom (Psalms 45:2) and bride (Psalms 45:10), a description of the bridal procession ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THY LORD] rather, 'thy lord': see 1 Peter 3:6. WORSHIP.. HIM] rather, 'do him homage.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WORSHIP THOU HIM. — Literally, _Bow down or prostrate thyself. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 45:12]_ וְ יִתְאָ֣ו הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ יָפְיֵ֑ךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 45:1 THIS is an _ epithalamion_ or ode on a king's marriage. The usual bewildering variety of conjectures as to his identity meets us in commentaries. The older opinion points to Solomon's marr...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE KING'S WEDDING SONG Psalms 45:1 Though this psalm was probably composed to celebrate Solomon's marriage with Pharaoh's daughter, we must remember that it is distinctly applied to our Lord in Hebr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Whether this psalm has, or had, a local application or is wholly idealistic cannot be certainly determined. It matters very little, for it is one of the songs which inevitably is Messianic in its deep...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Still. We have only to admire the work of God. (Berthier) --- He will bring all to a happy issue for his elect, though the wicked may rage. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is a tender and affectionate address, to the Church, the Lamb's wife. And if we suppose God our Father thus speaking to the whole body of believers, concerning their union with his Son, as our gl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 45 introduces Messiah, and, as we shall see, changes everything. I know not, interesting and full of bright energy as the psalm is, that I have much to note upon it, by reason of its force bein...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO SHALL THE KING GREATLY DESIRE THY BEAUTY,.... Which lies in the comeliness or righteousness of Christ put upon her; in the holiness of Christ reckoned to her; in being washed from all sin in the bl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy Lord; and worship thou him. Ver. 11. _So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty_] If thou deny thyself and forego all others to please h...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty_ So shalt thou be amiable in the eyes of thy husband, and truly acceptable and dear to him, who, having purchased and betrothed thee to himself, justly req...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-17 If we desire to share these blessings, we must hearken to Christ's word. We must forget our carnal and sinful attachments and pursuits. He must be our Lord as well as our Saviour; all idols mus...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    So doing thou shalt be amiable and acceptable to thy Husband; which will abundantly recompense thee for the loss of thy father's house. HE IS THY LORD; as he is thy Husband, and also as he is thy King...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 45:11 King H4428 desire H183 (H8691) beauty H3308 Lord H113 worship H7812 (H8690) So shall -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ADVICE GIVEN TO THE BRIDE (PSALMS 45:10). The bride is advised to forget her past life and to look forward to her glorious future. She may well never have met her husband-to-be, and was probably feeli...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 45:11 The forty-fifth Psalm is the coronation oath of Christ to His Church. And here are three thoughts strung together to do honour to the occasion Christ's delight in His Church's beauty, Ch...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    It is a Psalm of instruction, and yet it is a song of love, for the science of love to Christ is the most excellent of all the sciences. To know Christ is to love him, and we are best instructed who l...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 45:1. _My heart is inditing a good matter: speak of the things which I have made touching the King:_ You know what King is referred to here, it is he, of whom the psalmist said, in the 4 th ve...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, (or, upon the lilies), for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. We may look upon the 45 th Psalm as being a sort of compendium of the Song of Solomon. It...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A psalm of the King, looking to His advent in glory. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: In the eyes of all those enlightened by the Holy Spirit the Lord Jesus, the King of Kings, excel...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Meir Arama says, that with the consent of all [the rabbins] this psalm speaks of the Messiah. The Targum also, as far as the eighth verse, expounds it of the Messiah. Their interpretation appears to b...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My heart is inditing a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made touching the king._ THE SONG OF THE HEAVENLY NUPTIALS In accordance with unbroken tradition of the Church from the beginni...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty._ THE BEAUTY OF THE CHURCH DESIRED BY CHRIST I. The believer’s beauty. 1. It is all derived, and not natural. Our Lord Jesus first makes men beautiful t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear._ ; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house. THE BRIDEGROOM’S CALL TO THE BRIDE Christ and His Church are the subject of this...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 45:1. This hymn celebrates a royal wedding. It is impossible to be sure for which king in David’s line the song was first composed, but it does not matter. After...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 45:10 The song turns to the bride (O DAUGHTER). Her loyalty now is to her husband (THE KING), no longer to her FATHER’S HOUSE. The reference to her...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil. A song of loves.” “_To the chief musician_.” See notes on the title to Psalms 39. “_Upon Shoshan...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is regarded by some as a simple epithalamium, or nuptial hymn, composed to honour a royal wedding, and sung as part of the wedding ceremony, at the marriage of some king of Israe...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The forty-fifth psalm is one of those beautiful psalms that refers to Christ, a Messianic psalm. The glorious king. But in this same psalm is seen the church, the bride of Jesus Christ. And so we have...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 10:36; Ephesians 5:26; Ephesians 5:27; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 62:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    So — So thou shalt be acceptable to thy husband; which will abundantly recompence thee, for the loss of thy father's house. Thy Lord — As he is thy husband, and also as he is thy king, and God....

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