Psalm 45:5 {44:6}
Good News Translation
Your arrows are sharp, they pierce the hearts of your enemies; nations fall down at your feet.

New Revised Standard Version
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

Contemporary English Version
Send your sharp arrows through enemy hearts and make all nations fall at your feet.

New American Bible
Your arrows are sharp; peoples will cower at your feet; the king’s enemies will lose heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king's enemies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king's enemies.

Thine

Psalm 21:12 For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

Psalm 38:2 For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

Numbers 24:8 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

Zechariah 9:13,14 Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty. . . .

sharp

Psalm 2:1-9 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Luke 19:42-44 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. . . .

Luke 20:18,19 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. . . .

Acts 2:37,41 Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren? . . .

Acts 5:33 When they had heard these things, they were cut to the heart: and they thought to put them to death.

Acts 7:54 Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they gnashed with their teeth at him.

people

Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

Psalm 66:3,4 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. . . .

Acts 4:4 But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

Acts 5:14 And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was more increased:

Acts 6:7 And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

Romans 15:18,19 For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, . . .

Context
My Heart is Stirred by a Noble Theme
4With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, and reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully. 5Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king's enemies.6Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of uprightness.…
Cross References
Numbers 24:8
God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and break their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

2 Samuel 18:14
And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,

Psalm 7:13
And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

Psalm 18:14
And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

Psalm 92:9
For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

Psalm 120:4
The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

Isaiah 5:28
Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.

Isaiah 7:13
And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?

Psalm 45:4
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