with the oil of gladness above
your fellows.
8. There is myrrh, stacte, and cassia wafting from your robes,
from the ivory palaces which have gladdened you.
9. Kings’ daughters assemble in honor of you;
the queen stood at your right hand,
clothed in vestments of gold and fine embroidery.
10. Listen, O daughter, and take note:
Incline your ear, forget your people and your father’s house,
11. because the king has desired your beauty,
because he is your Lord.
12. The daughters of Tyre shall bow down to him bearing gifts,
the richest people of the land shall supplicate your favor.
13. All this glory is for the daughter of the king within;
she is enwrapped in golden fringed finery and embroidery.
14. The virgins in her train shall be brought to the king.
Those who are related to her will be introduced to you.
15. They shall be brought forth with gladness and rejoicing.
They shall be ushered into the temple of the king.
16. In place of your ancestors, children are born to you;
you shall make them princes over
all the land.
17. They shall cause your name to be remembered,
from generation to generation.
Therefore the nations shall give you thanks for ever,
even for ages and ages to come.
Psalm 46
1. Clap your hands all your nations;
Shout to God with voices of exultation.
2. For the Lord Most High is awesome,
great king over all the earth.
3. He has subdued peoples under us,
the nations under our feet.
4. He has chosen us as his inheritance,
the beauty of Jacob which he loved.
5. God has ascended with shouts of acclamation,
the Lord to the sound of trumpet blasts!
6. Sing praises to our God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7. For God is king over all the earth;
sing praises with heartfelt understanding.
8. God reigns over the nations;
God sits upon his holy throne.
Psalm 49
7. Hear, my people and I will speak to you, Israel,
and I will bear witness to you: I am God your God.
8. I will not reprove you for your sacrifices,
your burnt-offering which are always before me.
9. Nor will I take any bullocks from your house,
nor he-goats from your flocks.
10. For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine,
the cattle on the mountainsides and oxen.
11. I lay claim to all the birds of the air,
and the ripe fruits of the field belong
to me.
12. If I were hungry, I would not
inform you,
for the world is mine and all its fullness.
13. Do I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
14. Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise,
and pay your vows to the Most High.
15. Call upon me in the day of affliction,
and I will deliver you and you
will praise me.
16. But to the sinner God has said,
“Why do you declare my ordinances,
or take up my covenant in your mouth?
17. As for you,
you have hated instruction,
and cast my words behind you.
18. If you saw a thief, you kept pace
with him;
and cast in your lot with adulterers.
19. Your mouth has abounded in wickedness,
and your tongue has fashioned deceit.
20. You sat down and spoke against your relative,
even against your mother’s offspring you caused scandal.
21. You did these things
and I kept quiet.
You wickedly supposed that I
was like yourself.
But now I will reprove you and set the matter before you.”
22. Now consider this, you who
forget God,
lest you be rent to pieces,
and there be no deliverer.
Psalm 50
1. Have mercy upon
