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(A)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A (B)scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

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(A)Your throne, God, is forever and ever;
(B)The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.

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[a]Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:6 This verse has mystified many commentators since God is distinguished from the King in vv 2 and 7, and various translations have been proposed to make the Hebrew rendered “O God” something other than a reference to the deity of the King. But the writer of Hebrews clearly understood it this way.

Your throne, O God,[a] will last for ever and ever;(A)
    a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:6 Here the king is addressed as God’s representative.

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

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