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My Heart Is Stirred by a Noble Theme

Psalms 45:5

In 11 translations

BSB
Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.
KJV
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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.
LSV
Your arrows [are] sharp—Peoples fall under You—In the heart of the enemies of the King.
YLT
Thine arrows [are] sharp, — Peoples fall under Thee — In the heart of the enemies of the king.
DBY
Thine arrows are sharp — peoples fall under thee — in the heart of the king's enemies.
DRC44:6
Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king’s enemies.
GNV
Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.
JPS45:6
Thine arrows are sharp — the peoples fall under thee — they sink into the heart of the king's enemies.
LXXE44:6
Thy weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under thee) they are in the heart of the king's enemies.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC45:6
חִצֶּ֗יךָ שְׁנ֫וּנִ֥ים עַ֭מִּים תַּחְתֶּ֣יךָ יִפְּל֑וּ בְּ֝לֵ֗ב אוֹיְבֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃KJV:Ps.45.5
LXX-Br44:6
Τὰ βέλη σου ἠκονημένα δυνατὲ, λαοὶ ὑποκάτω σου πεσοῦνται, ἐν καρδίᾳ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τοῦ βασιλέως.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 21:12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
  • Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
  • Numbers 24:8God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
  • Zechariah 9:13–14For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man. Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow…
  • Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
  • Romans 15:18–19I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So…
  • Psalms 66:3–4Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You. All the earth bows down to You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” Selah
  • Psalms 2:1–9Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: “Let us break Their chains and cast away…
  • Acts 6:7So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 4:4But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
  • Luke 19:42–44and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on…
  • Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
  • Acts 5:14Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
  • Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
  • Acts 5:33When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
  • Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 45:6 in some Bibles
  • 45:5 in most Bibles

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