Psalm 45

"My tongue is the pen of a ready writer" identifies the writer as a trained scribe. Scribes wrote with a reed pen on papyrus or leather, and a skilled one was a professional employed by the court.

"All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia" lists three imported aromatics. Myrrh is a resin from southern Arabia, cassia a bark related to cinnamon, aloes a fragrant wood — all of them long-distance luxury trade goods, the same materials used in the sacred anointing oil. Garments were stored with them and perfumed.

"Out of the ivory palaces" is not exaggeration. Kings of Israel and Judah decorated rooms with carved ivory panels inlaid into furniture and walls; Ahab's "ivory house" is mentioned in Kings, and excavations at Samaria turned up hundreds of ivory fragments in exactly that style. "The gold of Ophir" names the finest grade of gold in that world, from a source whose location is still debated.

"The daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift" and "forget also thine own people, and thy father's house" mark this as a diplomatic marriage. Kings sealed alliances by marrying foreign princesses, who arrived with dowries, retinues, and the expectation of leaving their homeland behind. Israel's history shows how dangerous that was when the bride brought her gods, as Jezebel of Sidon did.