Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 45:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 45:5: The royal wording “Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies” stays inside the ancient kingship movement “A royal wedding poem of beauty and justice.”
Read It With
- Psalms 45:1–17
Read Psalms 45:5 with 45:1–17. Read alone, “Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies” could lose the royal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 45:1–17, the royal voice carries the movement “A royal wedding poem of beauty and justice” as part of “A royal wedding poem of beauty and justice.” Its royal-wedding form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why It Needs Context
The line “Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 45:1–17; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “A royal wedding poem of beauty and justice” must supply the claim before teaching or application.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 45:1–17 — A royal wedding poem of beauty and justiceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 45:1–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 45:1–17
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