Psalms 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
KJV
Fluminis impetus lætificat civitatem Dei : sanctificavit tabernaculum suum Altissimus.
Vulgate
τοῦ ποταμοῦ τὰ ὁρμήματα εὐφραίνουσιν τὴν πόλιν τοῦ θεοῦ· ἡγίασεν τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ ὁ ὕψιστος.
LXX
Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They arein the heart of the king’s enemies.
ASV
וַ/הֲדָ֬רְ/ךָ֨ צְלַ֬ח רְכַ֗ב עַֽל דְּבַר אֱ֭מֶת וְ/עַנְוָה צֶ֑דֶק וְ/תוֹרְ/ךָ֖ נוֹרָא֣וֹת יְמִינֶֽ/ךָ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֱמֶֽת
'mt
noun · 127×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
הַצְלַ֔ח
htslch
verb · 65×
הָדָ֣ר
hdr
noun · 30×
וֹ
v
noun · 141×
וֹ
v
verb · 78×
ךָ֥
k
noun · 2×
נִי
ny
verb · 86×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צֶ֑דֶק
tsdq
noun · 116×
תִּירָ֖א
tyr'
verb · 325×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Was the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, sanctified before her birth from the womb? Was she sanctified before animation? Was the fomes of sin entirely taken away from her in virtue of this sanctification? Was the result of this sanctification that she never sinned? In virtue of this sanctification, did she receive the fulness of grace? Was it proper to her to be thus sanctified? …
Cross-references
- Isa 5:28 — Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
- Jer 50:25 — The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
- Num 24:8 — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Num 24:8 — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
- Ps 7:13 — He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
- Ps 21:12 — Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
- Ps 22:27 — All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
- Ps 38:2 — For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
- Ps 110:2 — The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
- Ps 120:4 — Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
- Ps 144:6 — Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
- Zech 9:13 — When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.