Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 45:10-17
The inspired singer now repeats the words with which the King, the Messiah, addresses His Bride.
The inspired singer now repeats the words with which the King, the Messiah, addresses His Bride.
Verse Psalms 45:10. _HEARKEN. O DAUGHTER, AND CONSIDER_] This is the beginning of the address by the _companions of the bride_ to their mistress; after having, in the preceding verses, addressed the...
HEARKEN, O DAUGHTER, AND CONSIDER - This is probably to be understood as the language of the psalmist, in vision, as uttering counsel and advice which would be appropriate to the new condition of the...
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...
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...
CONSIDER. see plainly, or observe. FORGET ALSO THINE OWN PEOPLE. As did Rebekah (Genesis 24:58), and Rachel (Genesis 31:14), and Asenath (Genesis 41:45), and Ruth (Psa 1:16)....
_Hearken, O daughter_ The Psalmist adopts the tone of an authoritative teacher and uses language resembling that of the Wise Man to his disciples in the opening chapter of Proverbs (Proverbs 1:8, and...
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....
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...
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...
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...
_HEARKEN, O DAUGHTER, AND CONSIDER, AND INCLINE THINE EAR; FORGET ALSO THINE OWN PEOPLE, AND THY FATHER'S HOUSE;_ Address to the Bride. HEARKEN, O DAUGHTER, AND CONSIDER, AND INCLINE THINE EAR; FORG...
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 ...
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...
HEARKEN. — The address now turns to the bride....
_[Psalms 45:11]_ שִׁמְעִי ־בַ֣ת וּ֭ רְאִי וְ...
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...
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...
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...
(i) Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; (i) Under the figure of Pharaoh's daughter, he shows that the Church must cast off...
_Shields. Hebrew, "the round things," which some explain, "chariots," without need. (Berthier) --- Fire. The Fathers apply this to the peace which reigned at the birth of Christ, or to that which Cons...
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...
10._Hearken, O daughter! and consider _I have no doubt, that what is here said is spoken of the Egyptian woman, whom the prophet has described as standing at the right hand of the king. It was not, in...
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...
HEARKEN, O DAUGHTER, AND CONSIDER, AND INCLINE THINE EAR,.... These words are either spoken by the prophet, the author of the psalm; or by the King, the bridegroom himself; or, as others think, by Jeh...
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; Ver. 10. _Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear_] The prophet's, or rath...
_Hearken_, &c. The prophet, having hitherto spoken to the bridegroom, addresses himself now to the bride or queen. _O daughter_ He speaks like an elder person, and as her spiritual father and counsell...
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...
HEARKEN: these words are spoken, either, 1. In the person of the attendants upon the bride or bridegroom. Or, 2. Of the bridegroom. Or rather, 3. By the prophet himself; who having hitherto spoken t...
Psalms 45:10 Listen H8085 (H8798) daughter H1323 Consider H7200 (H8798) incline H5186 (H8685) ear H241 Forget...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 5:16; 2 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Corinthians 7:1;...
Hearken — The prophet having hitherto spoken to the bridegroom, now addresseth his speech to the bride. O daughter — He speaks like an elder person, and as her spiritual father and counsellor. Incline...