the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Psalms 45:10
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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; Forget also your own people, and your father's house:
Listen to me, daughter; look and pay attention. Forget your people and your father's family.
Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thy ear; forget also thy own people, and thy father's house;
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]: Forget your people and your father's house;
Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,
Douyter, here thou, and se, and bowe doun thin eere; and foryete thi puple, and the hows of thi fadir.
Listen, O daughter, observe and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house,
Bride of the king, listen carefully to me. Forget your own people and your father's family.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
Daughters of kings are among your favorites; at your right stands the queen in gold from Ofir.
Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:
My lady, listen to me. Listen carefully and understand me. Forget your people and your father's family,
Kings' daughters are among thy favourites; at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Hearken (O daughter) and consider, and incline thine eare; forget also thine owne people, and thy fathers house.
Listen, O daughter, hear my words and think about them. Forget your people and your father's house.
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house,
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house.
Hearken, O my daughter, and consider and incline your ear; forget also your own people and your fathers house.
Bride of the king, listen to what I say— forget your people and your relatives.
Hearken, O daughter, and observe, Incline also thine ear, Forget, then, thine own people, And the house of thy father;
(44-11) Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father’s house.
Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house;
Hearken O daughter and consider, encline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house.
Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; forget also thy people, and thy father’s house.
Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider:forget your people and your father’s house,
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Hear, O daughter, and discern and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.
Listen, O daughter, and look, and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.
Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,
Kynges doughters go in thy goodly araye, & vpon thy right honde stondeth the quene in a vesture of the most fyne golde.
"Now listen, daughter, don't miss a word: forget your country, put your home behind you. Be here—the king is wild for you. Since he's your lord, adore him. Wedding gifts pour in from Tyre; rich guests shower you with presents."
Listen, daughter, look and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house;
Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear; Forget your own people also, and your father's house;
Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house;
Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:Forget your people and your father's house;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hearken: Song of Solomon 2:10-13, Isaiah 55:1-3, 2 Corinthians 6:17, 2 Corinthians 6:18, 2 Corinthians 7:1
forget: Genesis 2:24, Genesis 12:1, Deuteronomy 21:13, Deuteronomy 33:9, Matthew 10:37, Matthew 19:29, Luke 14:26, 2 Corinthians 5:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:58 - General Genesis 24:61 - followed Genesis 31:16 - whatsoever Genesis 41:51 - Manasseh Numbers 10:30 - General Ruth 1:16 - thy people Ruth 2:11 - and how 1 Samuel 25:42 - Abigail Psalms 45:13 - king's Proverbs 9:6 - Forsake Song of Solomon 4:8 - with me Song of Solomon 8:1 - I would Song of Solomon 8:5 - from the Isaiah 54:5 - thy Maker Matthew 19:5 - said Matthew 22:2 - which Mark 4:3 - Hearken Luke 5:34 - bridegroom Romans 7:4 - that ye 2 Corinthians 11:2 - I have Philippians 3:13 - forgetting Revelation 19:7 - for
Cross-References
Then he broke down and wept. He wept so loudly the Egyptians could hear him, and word of it quickly carried to Pharaoh's palace.
"I am Joseph!" he said to his brothers. "Is my father still alive?" But his brothers were speechless! They were stunned to realize that Joseph was standing there in front of them.
Then Jacob exclaimed, "It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die."
But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the Lord and that I am present even in the heart of your land.
The only place without hail was the region of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.
Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear,.... These words are either spoken by the prophet, the author of the psalm; or by the King, the bridegroom himself; or, as others think, by Jehovah the Father, whose daughter the church is; unless it should be rather thought to be an address of the honourable women, the kings' daughters, the virgins and companions of the bride, delivered by them to her under the character of the daughter of Zion, the King's daughter, as she is called, Psalms 45:13, "to hearken, incline [her] ear" and listen to her Lord and King, to his Gospel, and the doctrines of it, which are his voice and words, and to all his precepts and commands; and to "consider", see, and behold the goodness of God unto her, the greatness, excellencies, and glories of her husband; to look to him by faith, as he is held forth in the word and ordinances, and to him only and that constantly, which is well pleasing to him;
forget also thine own people and thy father's house; Christ is to be preferred before natural relations; converted persons are not to have fellowship with carnal men, though ever so, nearly related; former superstitions, Whether Jewish or Heathenish, are to be buried in forgetfulness; sinful self, and righteous self, are to be denied for Christ's sake; and the world, and all things in it, are to be treated with neglect and contempt by such who cleave to him. The Targum interprets this of the congregation of Israel hearing the law, beholding the wonderful works of God, and forgetting the idolatrous practices of their ancestors.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hearken, O daughter, and consider - This is probably to be understood as the language of the psalmist, in vision, as uttering counsel and advice which would be appropriate to the new condition of the bride. Some have understood it as the language of the father of the bride, uttering appropriate counsel to his daughter on entering upon her new relationship; exhorting her to affection and obedience in that relationship; charging her to feel that she is his, that she is to go with him, that she is to identify herself with his interests, and to âforget,â - that is, not improperly to long for her own people and her fatherâs house. All this would be good advice for a father to give to his daughter in such circumstances; but the most natural interpretation is to regard the language here as that of the psalmist, or as inspired wisdom, in regard to the proper feeling in entering on such a relation. If this be the meaning, the word âdaughterâ may be used as a term of affection or kindness, as the word âsonâ often is, to denote one who is a disciple or learner. The âthoughtâ suggested here is, that counsel or advice in regard to the manner in which she should demean herself to secure the continual confidence of her husband, may be very properly given to a newly-married bride. The counsel here suggested, considered with reference only to that relation, would be eminently wise.
And incline thine ear - Attend to what is now said. The address is repeated - âHearken;â âconsider;â âincline thine ear;â as if the matter were of great importance. On the phrase âincline thine ear,â see the notes at Psalms 31:2; compare Psalms 78:1.
Forget also thine own people - This is said on the supposition that the bride was a foreign princess. As such, it is to be supposed that she had been trained under other customs, under other forms of religion, and with reference to other interests than those which would now pertain to her. The counsel is, that she must now forget all these, and identify herself with her husband, and with his interests. The word âforgetâ cannot denote absolute forgetfulness, or that she was to cast off all affection for those who had trained her up; but the meaning is, that she was not to pine after them; that she was not to be dissatisfied with her new home and her new relations; that she was not to carry the institutions of her native country with her; that she was not to make use of her new position to promote the ends of her native country if they were adverse to, or hostile to, the interests of her husband and his country.
As applied to a bride now, the advice would mean that she is not to pine for her old home; that she is not to make complaining and unfavorable comparison between that and her new home; that she is not to divert her husband from his plans, and the proper pursuits of his life, by endeavoring to induce him to forsake his friends, and to abandon his position, in order that she may be restored to the society of her earlier friends; that she is not to introduce habits, customs, amusements, modes of living into her husbandâs arrangements, derived from her former habits and modes of life, which would interfere with what is the proper economy of his house, and which would inconsistent with his principles, and with his means of living. When she marries, she should make up her mind, while she cherishes a proper regard for her old friends, and a proper memory of her past life, to identify her interests with his; to go where he goes; to live as he lives; and to die, if such be the will of God, where he dies, and to be buried by his side.
As applied to the Church - the bride of the Lamb - the idea here is that which we find so often enforced in the New Testament, that they who become the followers of the Saviour must be willing to forsake all for him, and to identify themselves with him and his cause. See the notes at Matthew 10:37; notes at Luke 14:26. We are to forsake the world, and devote ourselves to him; we are to break away from all worldly attachments, and to consecrate all to him; we are to bid adieu to worldly companions as our chosen friends, and make the friends of Christ our friends: we are not to pine after the world, to seek to return to it, to pant for its pleasures; we are not to take advantage of our position in the church to promote the objects which we had pursued before we entered it; we are not to introduce the customs, the habits, the plans which we before pursued, âintoâ the church. We are in all things to become identified with him to whom we have become âespousedâ 2 Corinthians 11:2; we are to live with him; to go with him; to die with him; to be his forever.
And thy fatherâs house - The home of thy childhood; the house where thy father dwells. The strongest earthly ties are to be made subservient to a higher and stronger tie, if we would become true followers of the Saviour. See Luke 9:59-62.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 45:10. Hearken. O daughter, and consider — This is the beginning of the address by the companions of the bride to their mistress; after having, in the preceding verses, addressed the bridegroom; or, rather, given a description of his person, qualities, and magnificence. Suppose the daughter of Pharaoh to be intended, the words import: Thou art now become the spouse of the most magnificent monarch in the universe. To thee he must be all in all. Forget therefore thy own people - the Egyptians, and take the Israelites in their place. Forget also thy father's house; thou art now united to a new family. So shall the king - Solomon, greatly desire thy beauty - thou wilt be, in all respects, pleasing to him. And it is right thou shouldst act so; for he is now become thy lord - thy supreme governor. And worship thou him - submit thyself reverently and affectionately to all his commands.
Taken in reference to Christ and the Gospel, this is an address to the Gentiles to forsake their idolatrous customs and connexions, to embrace Christ and his Gospel in the spirit of reverence and obedience, with the promise that, if beautified with the graces of his Spirit, Christ will delight in them, and take them for his peculiar people; which has been done.
