Psalms 45:15
in Psalms 45They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They shall enter into the king’s palace.
KJV
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
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This verse in Psalms 45
Commentary
3 notes on this verseWith gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought. Joy becomes a marriage feast. What joy will that be which will be seen at the feasts of paradise when all the redeemed shall be brought home! Gladness in the saints themselves, and rejoicing from the angels shall make the halls of the New Jerusalem ring again with shoutings. They shall enter into the King's palace. Their peaceful abodes shall be where Jesus the King reigns in state for ever. They shall not be shut out but shut in. Rights of free entrance into the holiest of all shall be accorded them.
This site's exposition
All glorious is the princess
on Psalms 45:13-15
The princess is all glorious in her chamber, her gown embroidered with gold. She is led to the king in colorful garments, her virgin companions with her, and the company enters the palace with joy and gladness. Augustine reads her beauty as given to her.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
(1.) This intimates a two-fold bringing of the spouse to Christ. [1.] In the conversion of souls to Christ; then they are espoused to him, privately contracted, as chaste virgins, 2 Cor. xi.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
All honor [awaits] the King’s daughter who is within, etc. Those who deserve all honor, and they are the nation of the King, who behaved with modesty now their garments will be more esteemed than the settings of gold of the High Priests. משבצוֹת is chatons in French, settings.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| תּ֭וּבַלְנָה | tuvalnah | they are brought | H2986 → | 18 times |
| בִּשְׂמָחֹ֣ת | bismachot | with joy<s> | H8057 → | 94 times |
| וָגִ֑יל | vagil | and rejoicing | H1524 → | 9 times |
| תְּ֝בֹאֶ֗ינָה | tevoeinah | they go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בְּהֵ֣יכַל | beheikhal | in [the] palace of | H1964 → | 80 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ׃ | melekh | [the] king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
תּ֭וּבַלְנָהthey are brought
tuvalnahH2986 →18 times
בִּשְׂמָחֹ֣תwith joy<s>
bismachotH8057 →94 times
וָגִ֑ילand rejoicing
vagilH1524 →9 times
תְּ֝בֹאֶ֗ינָהthey go
tevoeinahH935 →2568 times
בְּהֵ֣יכַלin [the] palace of
beheikhalH1964 →80 times
מֶֽלֶךְ׃[the] king
melekhH4428 →2525 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
it leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Colossians 1:22
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
- John 10:29–30
My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
- Hebrews 13:20–21
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- 2 Timothy 4:18
Through
Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom…
it leads to
- Revelation 19:7–8
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- Philippians 3:9
and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
- Psalms 132:9
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
- Revelation 19:7–8
Where this verse is studied
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About Psalms

This page draws on Alexander Maclaren, The Psalms, Expositor's Bible; Augustine, Expositions on the Psalms; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
