New King James Version
Psalms 45:5
5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies; The peoples fall under You.
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 Living Translation (NLT)Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies’ hearts. The nations fall beneath your feet.
Context of Psalms 45:5
3Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One, With Your glory and Your majesty. 4And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness; And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things. Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies; The peoples fall under You. 6Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. 7You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
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 21:12Therefore You will make them turn their back; You will make ready Your arrows on Your string toward their faces.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.
- Numbers 24:8“God brings him out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox; He shall consume the nations, his enemies; He shall break their bones And pierce them with his arrows.
- Zechariah 9:13For I have bent Judah, My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim, And raised up your sons, O Zion, Against your sons, O Greece, And made you like the sword of a mighty man.”
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing?
- Luke 19:42saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
- Luke 20:18Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”
- Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
- Acts 5:33When they heard this, they were furious and plotted to kill them.
- Acts 7:54When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
- Psalms 22:27All the ends of the world Shall remember and turn to the Lord, And all the families of the nations Shall worship before You.
- Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
- Acts 4:4However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
- Acts 5:14And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
- Acts 6:7Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
- Romans 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient—
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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