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Psalms 45:5
5Your arrows are sharp; The peoples (nations) fall under You; Your arrows pierce the hearts of the King’s enemies.
Psalms 45:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
- New International Version (NIV)Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies; The peoples fall under You.
Context of Psalms 45:5
3Strap Your sword on Your thigh, O mighty One, In Your splendor and Your majesty! 4And in Your majesty ride on triumphantly For the cause of truth and humility and righteousness; Let Your right hand guide You to awesome things. Your arrows are sharp; The peoples (nations) fall under You; Your arrows pierce the hearts of the King’s enemies. 6Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. 7You have loved righteousness (virtue, morality, justice) and hated wickedness; Therefore God, your God, has anointed You Above Your companions with the oil of jubilation.
Read all of Psalms 45Psalms 45:5 word by word
חִצֶּ֗יךָ שְׁנ֫וּנִ֥ים עַ֭מִּים תַּחְתֶּ֣יךָ יִפְּל֑וּ בְּ֝לֵ֗ב אוֹיְבֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 45:5
- Psalms 21:12For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat]; You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply, And Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me.
- Numbers 24:8God brought Israel out of Egypt; Israel has strength like the wild ox; He will devour [Gentile] nations, his adversaries (enemies), And will crush their bones in pieces, And shatter them with his arrows.
- Zechariah 9:13For I will bend Judah as My bow, I will fit the bow with Ephraim [as My arrow]. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, And will make you [Israel] like the sword of a warrior.
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God], And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?
- Luke 19:42saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
- Luke 20:18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken and shattered in pieces; and on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”
- Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart [with remorse and anxiety], and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what are we to do?”
- Acts 5:33Now when they heard this, they were infuriated and they intended to kill the apostles.
- Acts 7:54Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him.
- Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,
- Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works! Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to be obedient to You.
- Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the message [of salvation] believed [in Jesus and accepted Him as the Christ]. And the number of the men came to be about 5,000.
- Acts 5:14More and more believers in the Lord, crowds of men and women, were constantly being added to their number,
- Acts 6:7And the message of God kept on growing and spreading, and the number of disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem; and a large number of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith [accepting Jesus as Messiah and acknowledging Him as the Source of eternal salvation].
- Romans 15:18For I will not [even] presume to speak of anything except what Christ has done through me [as an instrument in His hands], resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles [to the gospel], by word and deed,
Commentaries on Psalms 45:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Thine arrows are sharp - The arrows here may mean the convictions produced in the hearts of men by the preaching of the Gospel. The King is God himself; his enemies are sinners of all sorts. The people, the Jews, thousands of whom were pricked in their hearts under the preaching of Peter and others. All fall before Christ; those who received the word rose again by repentance and faith; those who did not, fell down-all down!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart - literally, “Thine arrows are sharp - the people under thee shall fall - in the heart of the enemies of the king.” The process of “thought” in the verse seems to be this: First. The “arrows” are seen as sharp or penetrating. Second. The “people” are seen falling as those arrows are shot forth. Third. It is seen that those who fall are the “enemies of the king,” and that the arrows have pierced the “heart.” The word…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-5The psalmist describes the royal splendor the king showed when fighting his enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. The result. people--Whole nations are subdued.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 45
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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