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You love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy
    more than any of your companions.

Myrrh, aloes, and cassia perfume all your garments.
From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad.
Daughters of kings are among your honored attendants.
The royal wife[a] stands at your right hand in gold from Ophir.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:9 This may refer to the queen mother (Song 3:11). The next section is addressed to the King’s bride.