Psalms 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psalms 45:5 in other translations
| BSB | Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet. |
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| WEB | Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies. |
| ASV | Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They are in the heart of the king’s enemies. |
| YLT | Thine arrows are sharp, --Peoples fall under Thee--In the heart of the enemies of the king. |
| DARBY | Thine arrows are sharp — peoples fall under thee — in the heart of the king's enemies. |
| BBE | Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you. |
| Webster | Thy arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under thee. |
What does Psalms 45:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 45:1-5
This psalm is a prophecy of Messiah the Prince, and points to him as a Bridegroom espousing the church to himself, and as a King ruling in it, and for it. Verses 1-5 The psalmist's tongue was guided by the Spirit of God, as the pen is by the hand of a ready writer. This psalm is touching the King Jesus, his kingdom and government. It is a shame that this good matter is not more the subject of our discourse. There is…
Psalms 45:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 45:5
- Psalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
- Numbers 24:8
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Psalms 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- Zechariah 9:13-14
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
- Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
- Romans 15:18-19
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
- Psalms 66:3-4
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
- Acts 4:4
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
- Psalms 2:1-9
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. …
- Luke 19:42-44
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
- Acts 6:7
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
- Luke 20:18-19
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
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Context
- Psalms 45:4
And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
- Psalms 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
- Psalms 45:6
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psalms 45:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tus saetas agudas con que caerán pueblos debajo de ti, penetrarán en el corazón de los enemigos del Rey. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et, prospérant dans ta magnificence, mène en avant ton char, à cause de la vérité et de la débonnaireté et de la justice; et ta droite t’enseignera des choses terribles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Deine Pfeile sind scharf-Völker fallen unter dir-im Herzen der Feinde des Königs. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fluminis impetus lætificat civitatem Dei: sanctificavit tabernaculum suum Altissimus. |