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Psalms 45:7, 8

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Psalms 45:7, 8

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

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You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The fulfillment reading connects the anointing language of Psalm 45:7-8 with the title "Messiah/Christ" ("anointed one") proclaimed of Jesus in Luke 2:11. Proponents see the Davidic royal-anointing tradition as a trajectory culminating in the one who is definitively the Anointed One, so the king's anointing anticipates that title's ultimate bearer. On this view the anointing (endowment) and the resulting title (designation) mark distinct facets of a single messianic pattern. The honor and endurance ascribed to the king are read as fitting the everlasting Anointed King.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading notes that Psalm 45:7-8 is the same anointing already read messianically as an anointing elsewhere, and that pairing it separately with Luke 2:11 counts one event in the poem twice. Interpreters observe that every Davidic king was mashiach ("anointed") by definition, since anointing was the mechanism of royal installation, so a match on the word "anointed" is near-automatic. Luke 2:11 uses the title "Messiah" but does not cite or quote Psalm 45, so the connection is lexical rather than a textual appeal. On this view the correspondence is circular and adds no predictive content beyond that earlier anointing reading.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Luke 2:11 Not cited by the New Testament

    Luke 2:11 applies the title "Messiah" to Jesus but neither quotes nor alludes to Psalm 45; the only link is the shared vocabulary of anointing.