Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options
Close AMP

Psalm 45:6-7
Amplified Bible

6 
[a]Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 
You have loved righteousness (virtue, morality, justice) and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, your God, has anointed You
Above Your companions with the oil of jubilation.(A)

Read full chapter

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.
Listen to Psalm 45:6-7
Close NIV

Psalm 45:6-7
New International Version

6 Your throne, O God,[a] will last for ever and ever;(A)
    a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
7 You love righteousness(B) and hate wickedness;(C)
    therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
    by anointing(D) you with the oil of joy.(E)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:6 Here the king is addressed as God’s representative.
Next
Psalm 44
Psalm 46
Next
dropdown
Amplified Bible (AMP)

Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631. All rights reserved.

The Amplified Bible is made available by The Lockman Foundation
New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.

July Summer Surge

More on the NIV