Psalms 45:5

As the text stands it must be rendered;

Thine arrows are sharp;

Peoples fall under thee:

(They are) in the heart of the king's enemies.

The poet depicts the battle with rapid vigorous strokes of his pen. The king's arrows are sharpened (Isaiah 5:28), ready for fatal effect; his enemies fall at their discharge; he rides on over their prostrate corpses; each shaft has found its mark in the heart of a foe. But the construction is abrupt, and possibly there is some error in the text.