Psalm 45:10 Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father's house.

◄ Psalm 45:10 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father's house.

English Standard Version
Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father’s house,

New American Standard Bible
Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house;

King James Bible
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider: forget your people and your father's house,

International Standard Version
Listen, daughter! Consider and pay attention. Forget your people and your father's house,

American Standard Version
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Darby Bible Translation
Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:

Young's Literal Translation
Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:13
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Ruth 1:16
And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God:

Ruth 1:17
Where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part you and me.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

45:10-17 If we desire to share these blessings, we must hearken to Christ's word. We must forget our carnal and sinful attachments and pursuits. He must be our Lord as well as our Saviour; all idols must be thrown away, that we may give him our whole heart. And here is good encouragement, thus to break off from former alliances. The beauty of holiness, both on the church and on particular believers, is, in the sight of Christ, of great price, and very amiable. The work of grace is the workmanship of the Spirit, it is the image of Christ upon the soul, a partaking of the Divine nature. It is clear of all sin, there is none in it, nor any comes from it. There is nothing glorious in the old man or corrupt nature; but in the new man, or work of grace upon the soul, every thing is glorious. The robe of Christ's righteousness, which he has wrought out for his church, the Father imputes unto her, and bestows upon her. None are brought to Christ, but those whom the Father brings. This notes the conversion of souls to him. The robe of righteousness, and garments of salvation, the change of raiment Christ has put upon her. Such as strictly cleave to Christ, loving him in singleness of heart, are companions of the bride, who partake of the very same grace, enjoy the same privileges, and share in one common salvation. These, every one, shall be brought to the King; not one lost or left behind. Instead of the Old Testament church, there shall be a New Testament church, a Gentile church. In the believing hope of our everlasting happiness in the other world, let us always keep up the remembrance of Christ, as our only way thither; and transmit the remembrance of him to succeeding generations, that his name may endure for ever.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10, 11. She is invited to the union, for forming which she must leave her father's people. She representing, by the form of the allegory, the Church, this address is illustrated by all those scriptures, from Ge 12:1 on, which speak of the people of God as a chosen, separate, and peculiar people. The relation of subjection to her spouse at once accords with the law of marriage, as given in Ge 3:16; 18:12; Eph 5:22; 1Pe 3:5, 6, and the relation of the Church to Christ (Eph 5:24). The love of the husband is intimately connected with the entire devotion to which the bride is exhorted.