Forget your people and your father’s house Let the king be enthralled by your beauty

Psalm 45:1-17

6 Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions

10 Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house Let the king be enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.

Your sons will take the place of your fathers,  you will make them princes throughout the land.

I will perpetuate your memory through all generations, therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

The actual occasion may have been the wedding of King Ahab of Israel to Jezebel, princess of Tyre. If so, the king’s reign soon changed for the worse.

Verse 1-9: the poet’s eloquent praise of the king’s majesty and godly rule.

Verse 10-15: a word to the bride in all her finery.

Verse 16-17: are addressed to the king.

Why?

God’s throne will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of God’s kingdom.

God’s character is love righteousness and hate wickedness. So the Lord is above my companions.

Praise the Lord and forget your people and your father’s house, means forget the behavior and customer in your father’s house. Because in God’s house there is a new house and new sprit. We have to be a new man.

How?

Praise the Lord with joy and music and heart to honor name of the Lord.