For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.
1My heart overflows with a noble theme.
I recite my verses for the king.
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
2You are the most excellent of the sons of men.
Grace has anointed Your lips,
therefore God has blessed You forever.
3Strap Your sword on Your thigh, O mighty one,
in Your splendor and Your majesty.
4In Your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.
Let Your right hand display awesome deeds.
5Your arrows are sharp.
The nations fall under You, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
6Your throne, God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of equity is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.
8All Your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.
9Kings’ daughters are among Your honorable women.
At Your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.
Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
11So the king will desire your beauty,
honor Him, for He is your lord.
12The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift.
The rich among the people entreat your favor.
13The princess inside is all glorious.
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
14She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
15With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.
They shall enter into the king’s palace.
16Your sons will take the place of Your fathers.
You shall make them princes in all the earth.
17I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give You thanks forever and ever.
1In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. Filiis Core, ad intellectum. Canticum pro dilecto.
2Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum: dico ego opera mea regi. Lingua mea calamus scribæ velociter scribentis. 3Speciosus forma præ filiis hominum, diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis: propterea benedixit te Deus in æternum. 4Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum, potentissime. 5Specie tua et pulchritudine tua intende, prospere procede, et regna, propter veritatem, et mansuetudinem, et justitiam; et deducet te mirabiliter dextera tua. 6Sagittæ tuæ acutæ: populi sub te cadent, in corda inimicorum regis. 7Sedes tua, Deus, in sæculum sæculi; virga directionis virga regni tui. 8Dilexisti justitiam, et odisti iniquitatem; propterea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, oleo lætitiæ, præ consortibus tuis. 9Myrrha, et gutta, et casia a vestimentis tuis, a domibus eburneis; ex quibus delectaverunt te 10filiæ regum in honore tuo. Astitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato, circumdata varietate. 11Audi, filia, et vide, et inclina aurem tuam; et obliviscere populum tuum, et domum patris tui. 12Et concupiscet rex decorem tuum, quoniam ipse est Dominus Deus tuus, et adorabunt eum. 13Et filiæ Tyri in muneribus vultum tuum deprecabuntur; omnes divites plebis. 14Omnis gloria ejus filiæ regis ab intus, in fimbriis aureis, 15circumamicta varietatibus. Adducentur regi virgines post eam; proximæ ejus afferentur tibi. 16Afferentur in lætitia et exsultatione; adducentur in templum regis. 17Pro patribus tuis nati sunt tibi filii; constitues eos principes super omnem terram. 18Memores erunt nominis tui in omni generatione et generationem: propterea populi confitebuntur tibi in æternum, et in sæculum sæculi.