New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 45:5
5Your 1arrows are sharp; The 2peoples fall under You; Your arrows are 3in the heart 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, Mighty One, In Your splendor and majesty! 4And in Your majesty ride on victoriously, For the cause of truth, humility, and righteousness; Let Your right hand teach You awesome things. Your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under You; Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies. 6Your throne, God, is forever and ever; The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice. 7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your companions.
Read all of Psalms 45Psalms 45:5 word by word
חִצֶּ֗יךָ שְׁנ֫וּנִ֥ים עַ֭מִּים תַּחְתֶּ֣יךָ יִפְּל֑וּ בְּ֝לֵ֗ב אוֹיְבֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 45:5
- Psalms 21:12For You will make them turn their back; You will take aim at their faces with Your bowstrings.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Numbers 24:8God brings him out of Egypt, He is for him like the horns of the wild ox. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries, And will crush their bones, And smash them with his arrows.
- Zechariah 9:13For I will bend Judah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece; And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations restless And the peoples plotting in vain?
- Luke 19:42saying, “If you had known on this day, even you, the conditions for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
- Luke 20:18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”
- Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what are we to do?”
- Acts 5:33But when they heard this, they became infuriated and nearly decided to execute them.
- Acts 7:54Now when they heard this, they were infuriated, and they began gnashing their teeth 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 worship before You.
- Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your works! Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to obey You.
- Acts 4:4But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
- Acts 5:14And increasingly believers in the Lord, large numbers of men and women, were being added to their number,
- Acts 6:7The word of God kept spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.
- Romans 15:18For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles 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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