Parallel Verses
Amplified
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.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore God, Your God, has
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.
King James Version
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Holman Bible
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy
more than your companions.
International Standard Version
You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.
A Conservative Version
Thou have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.
American Standard Version
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Bible in Basic English
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
Darby Translation
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.
King James 2000
You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions [with] festive oil.
Modern King James verseion
You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
NET Bible
You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.
New Heart English Bible
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated lawlessness, - For this cause, hath God, thine own God, anointed thee, With the oil of gladness, beyond thy partners.
Webster
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
World English Bible
You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.
Themes
Anointing » Figurative » Of Christ's kingly and priestly office
Anointing of the holy ghost » That Christ should receive » Foretold
sacred Anointing » Illustrative of the anointing » Of Christ with the holy ghost
Christ » Reproves » Righteousness of
Jesus Christ, Deity Of » As God over all
Symbols of the Holy Spirit » Oil
Oil » Illustrative of » The unction of the holy spirit
Prophecies respecting Christ » His being anointed with the spirit
Prophecies respecting Christ » His righteous government
Righteousness » Christ » Loves
Topics
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 45:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Royal Wedding Song
6
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
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.
All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia;
From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.
Cross References
Psalm 33:5
He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Psalm 21:6
For You make him most blessed [and a blessing] forever;
You make him joyful with the joy of Your presence.
Psalm 89:26
“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
Hebrews 1:9
“You have loved righteousness [integrity, virtue, uprightness in purpose] and have hated lawlessness [injustice, sin].
Therefore God, Your God, Has anointed You
With the oil of gladness above Your companions.”
Hebrews 2:14
Therefore, since [these His] children share in flesh and blood [the physical nature of mankind], He Himself in a similar manner also shared in the same [physical nature, but without sin], so that through [experiencing] death He might make powerless (ineffective, impotent) him who had the power of death—that is, the devil—
Leviticus 8:12
Then he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the presence of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
1 Kings 1:39-40
Zadok the priest took a horn of [olive] oil from the [sacred] tent and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
1 Kings 19:16
and you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth take their stand;
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and His Anointed (the Davidic King, the Messiah, the Christ), saying,
Psalm 11:7
For the Lord is [absolutely] righteous, He loves righteousness (virtue, morality, justice);
The upright shall see His face.
Psalm 89:20
“I have found David My servant;
With My holy oil I have anointed him,
Psalm 99:4
The strength of the King loves justice and righteous judgment;
You have established fairness;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob (Israel).
Psalm 101:3-4
I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes.
I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path];
It will not grasp hold of me.
Psalm 101:8
Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,
That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.
Isaiah 61:1-3
Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me
To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,
To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives
And freedom to prisoners,
Matthew 3:15
But Jesus replied to him,
Matthew 7:23
Luke 3:22
and the
Luke 4:18-21
Luke 13:27
John 1:16
For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].
John 3:34
For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God [proclaiming the Father’s own message]; for God gives the [gift of the] Spirit without measure [generously and boundlessly]!
John 20:17
Jesus said to her,
Acts 2:28
‘You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will fill me [infusing my soul] with joy with Your presence.’
Romans 8:29
For those whom He foreknew [and loved and chose beforehand], He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son [and ultimately share in His complete sanctification], so that He would be the firstborn [the most beloved and honored] among many believers.
Ephesians 1:3
Colossians 1:18-19
He is also the head [the life-source and leader] of the body, the
Hebrews 7:26
It was fitting for us to have such a High Priest [perfectly adapted to our needs], holy, blameless, unstained [by sin], separated from sinners and exalted higher than the heavens;
Revelation 21:27
and nothing that defiles or profanes or is unwashed will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices abominations [detestable, morally repugnant things] and lying, but only those [will be admitted] whose names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.