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Psalms 45:7

1 Kings 1:39; 1 Kings 1:40; 1 Kings 19:16; 1 Samuel 16:13; Acts 2:28; Colossians 1:18; Colossians 1:19; Ephesians 1:3; Hebrews 1:9; Hebrews 2:14; Hebrews 7:26; Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 61:1; John 1:16; John 20:17; John 3:34; Leviticus 8:12; Luke 13:27; Luke 3:22; Luke 4:18; Matthew 3:15; Matthew 7:23; Psalms 21:6; Psalms 33:5; Psalms 99:4; Psalms 101:3; Psalms 101:4; Psalms 101:8; Psalms 89:20; Psalms 89:26; Revelation 21:27; Romans 8:29

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See also Psalms 45:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 45:7. _OIL OF GLADNESS_] As an evidence that all causes of _mourning, sorrow_, and _death_, were at an end; as in the state of mourning the ancients did not anoint themselves. I have me...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU LOVEST RIGHTEOUSNESS ... - See this verse explained in the notes at Hebrews 1:9, where it is applied to the Messiah. The word “God” is rendered in the margin “O God”; “O God, thy God, hath anoint...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. ANOINTED. Hence His name Messiah (Greek. Christ). the anointed one. FELLOWS. companions....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The royal bridegroom: his personal beauty, the justice of his government, the success of his arms, the glory of his kingdom, the magnificence of his court. He is one upon whom the Divine blessing has...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Thou lovest_&c. Or, as R.V., Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. "I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile" were the last memorable words of Gregory VII....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 576 BENEFITS ATTENDANT ON HOLINESS Psalms 45:7. _Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows._ T...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THY GOD HATH ANOINTED THEE— Christ is emphatically, _The Anointed;_ Luke 4:18.; Acts 10:38. Kings, priests, and prophets, were anointed when they entered upon their several offices. Christ was anointe...

  • 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

    _THOU LOVEST RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HATEST WICKEDNESS: THEREFORE GOD, THY GOD, HATH ANOINTED THEE WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE THY FELLOWS._ From praising the King the Psalmist passes to the royal marri...

  • 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

    OIL OF GLADNESS] the oil, not of the coronation, but of a festive occasion....

  • 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

    THE OIL OF GLADNESS. — Comp. “oil of joy,” Isaiah 61:3. Here too it may be merely employed as a figure of happiness, but the bath and, no doubt, subsequent anointing, formed part of the Oriental marri...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 45:8]_ אָהַ֣בְתָּ צֶּדֶק֮ וַ תִּשְׂנָ֫א רֶ֥שַׁע...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath (f) anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (f) Has established your kingdom as the figure of Christ,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Trembled. We have witnessed the commotions in the East, under Cyrus, and his son; the latter of whom seems to be styled Gog, (Ezechiel xxxviii. 19.) and perished in Judea, which he intended to plunde...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we find Christ returned from the holy war, and sat down on the seat of the Conqueror. And we have God the Father speaking to this glorious Mediator, this triumphant king in Zion, and declaring th...

  • 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

    THOU LOVEST RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Either righteous persons, whom his countenance beholds, on whom his eyes are, and from whom they are never withdrawn, and with whom he is exceedingly delighted: or right...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Ver. 7. _Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedhess_] So...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Psa. 45:7. "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee," etc. The manifestation of Christ's loving righteousness, and hating wickedness, here spoken o...

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

    _Thou lovest righteousness_, &c. Thou not only doest that which is good, and avoidest that which is evil, which even bad princes and men may do, and often actually do for political and prudential reas...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    From the description of the King's majesty the writer now turns to a hymn of praise and worship....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness, the King Himself, coequal with God, hates the evil and loves the good, He causes righteousness to be applied in the government of His kingdom by mercif...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-9 The throne of this almighty King is established for ever. While the Holy Spirit leads Christ's people to look to his cross, he teaches them to see the evil of sin and the beauty of holiness; so t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thou dost not only do that which is good, and avoid that which is evil; which even bad princes and men may do, and sometimes actually do, for politic or prudential reasons; but thou dost this sincerel...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 45:7 love H157 (H8804) righteousness H6664 hate H8130 (H8799) wickedness H7562 God H430 God H430 anointed...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A DESCRIPTION OF THE KING'S GLORY (PSALMS 45:2). His description of the bridegroom's glory follows a carefully constructed pattern. 1) Firstly he describes the king's splendour (Psalms 45:2). He is...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The lily psalm a psalm of loves. Oh! that our hearts might be full of love tonight, and, while we read, may our hearts be singing to the praise of the Well Beloved. Psalms 45:1. _My heart is inditing...

  • 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

    _Thy God hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows._ THE GLADNESS OF JESUS This is our exceeding joy--the gladness of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. Yet it is not a mat...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever._ THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST, AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, AND RULED WITH PERFECT JUSTICE AND EQUITY I. Show that Zion’s king is God. 1. He is expressly called God in...

  • 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 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 45:2 These words speak to the king, praising him for his appearance and gracious speech (v. Psalms 45:2), military power (v....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 45:6 YOUR THRONE, O GOD. The song now speaks to God about his throne. This refers to the throne that the heir of David occupies. The psalm goes on to describe the divine ideals fo...

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — Therefore God hath exalted thee far above all men and angels, to a state of joy and endless glory at his right hand; which is fitly compared by the oil of gladness. Thy God — According to...

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