Psalm 45
| Psalm 45 | |
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| "My heart is inditing a good matter" | |
English Window quoting the verse "Full of grace are thy lips" | |
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| Language | Hebrew (original) |
| Psalm 45 | |
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← Psalm 44 Psalm 46 → | |
| Book | Book of Psalms |
| Hebrew Bible part | Ketuvim |
| Order in the Hebrew part | 1 |
| Category | Sifrei Emet |
| Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Christian part | 19 |
Psalm 45 is the 45th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "My heart is inditing a good matter". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 44. In Latin, it is known as "Eructavit cor meum". It was composed by the sons of Korach on (or "according to") the Shoshannim–either a musical instrument or the tune to which the psalm should be sung. The psalm has been interpreted as an epithalamium, or wedding song, written to a king on the day of his marriage to a foreign woman, and is one of the royal psalms.
The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.