Psalms 45:1 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 45:1

My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

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ASV

My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

KJV

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Christian Faith 4.10.133 (397)

The Son lives by the Father, because he is the Son begotten of the Father; by the Father, because he is of one substance with the Father; by the Father, because he is the Word given forth from the heart of the Father, because he came forth from the Father, because he is begotten of the "bowels of the Father," because the Father is the fountain and root of the Son's being.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The excellency of the management. This song was a confession with the mouth of faith in the heart concerning Christ and his church. (1.) The matter was well digested, as it well deserved: My heart is inditing it, which perhaps is meant of that Spirit of prophecy that dictated the psalm to David, that Spirit of Christ which was in the prophets, 1 Pet. i.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

My heart. There is no writing like that dictated by the heart. Heartless hymns are insults to heaven. Is inditing a good matter. A good heart will only be content with good thoughts. Where the fountain is good good streams will flow forth. The learned tell us that the word may be read overflows, or as others, boils or bubbles up, denoting the warmth of the writer's love, the fulness of his heart, and the consequent richness and glow of his utterance, as though it were the ebullition of his inmost soul, when most full of affection.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רָ֘חַ֤שׁ	ra.Chash	it is aroused	H7370 →
לִבִּ֨י׀	li.Bi	heart my	H3820 →
דָּ֘בָ֤ר	da.Var	a word	H1697 →
ט֗וֹב	Tov	good	H2896 →
אֹמֵ֣ר	'o.Mer	[am] speaking	H559 →
אָ֭נִי	'A.ni	I	H589 →
מַעֲשַׂ֣י	ma.'a.Sai	work<s> my	H4639 →
לְמֶ֑לֶךְ	le.Me.lekh	to [the] king	H4428 →
לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗י	le.sho.Ni	tongue my	H3956 →
עֵ֤ט׀	'et	[is] a stylus of	H5842 →
סוֹפֵ֬ר	so.Fer	a scribe	H5608 →
מָהִֽיר׃	ma.Hir	skilled	H4106 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Samuel 23:2
The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.
leads to
- 2 Peter 1:21
  For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 22:43
  Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
- Acts 2:25–31
  David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- Mark 12:36
  Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
Through
Psalms 49:3
My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
leads to
- Psalms 19:14
  May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
- Matthew 12:35
  The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
- Proverbs 22:20–21
  Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
Through
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise man instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
leads to
- Proverbs 15:28
  The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms