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Psalm 45 Bible study: Your throne is forever
"Grace has anointed your lips" (45:2) and "God, your God, has anointed you" (45:7) are two Hebrew verbs: the first is yatsaq, to pour. The king is told to ride "on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness" (45:4). And Hebrews gives 45:6-7 "of the Son" (Hebrews 1:8).
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“Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.”
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“In Psalm 45, the king is told to ride on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.”
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What's really going on
A wedding song for the king
The title says, "A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song" (45:1) (tap wedding). Then someone speaks in the first person: "My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer" (45:1) (tap overflows, skillful). From there the psalm moves from one person to another. It speaks to the king: "You are the most excellent of the sons of men" (45:2). It turns to a woman: "Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear" (45:10). It tells of her: "She shall be led to the king in embroidered work" (45:14). And it speaks to the king again: "Your sons will take the place of your fathers" (45:16). The Hebrew shows the turns: the you of 45:10-11 is feminine, and the you of 45:16-17 is masculine, as in 45:2-9. The psalm doesn't name the king, the woman or the one who says "I" (45:1, 45:17).
Where it leads to Jesus
Your throne, O God
Psalms 45:6leads toHebrews 1:8-9
The psalm says to the king, "Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom" (Psalm 45:6), and "You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows" (Psalm 45:7). Hebrews says God "has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son" (Hebrews 1:2), and gives these words of the Son: "But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom" (Hebrews 1:8), "You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows" (Hebrews 1:9). Later Hebrews names him: "Jesus, the Son of God" (Hebrews 4:14). Hebrews doesn't name the psalm, and the WEB words the two a little differently: God and O God, A scepter of equity and The scepter of uprightness, kingdom and Kingdom, wickedness and iniquity.
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- Three therefores
- What the king rides for
- Of the angels, but of the Son
- 9 questions as you read
- 13 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
כִּסֵּאkisse'say kis-SAY
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "seat of honour, throne". Strong's: "a throne (as canopied)". "Your throne, God, is forever and ever" (45:6). The Psalms have it 18 times in Hebrew. Two psalms later it is God's throne: "God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne" (Psalm 47:8). Hebrews gives 45:6 as "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever" (Hebrews 1:8).
For your group
Psalm 45 Bible study questions
- 1The king rides "on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness" (45:4). Which of the three is hardest for you to stand up for where you are this week?
- 2"You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness" (45:7). What would it look like for you to love what is right, and not only keep away from what is wrong?
- 3"My heart overflows with a noble theme" (45:1). If your heart overflowed about Jesus this week, what would you want to say about him?
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