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Your robes are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. In your palaces of inlaid ivory, lovely music is being played for your enjoyment. Kings’ daughters are among your concubines.[a] Standing beside you is the queen, wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir.

10-11 “I advise you, O daughter, not to fret about your parents in your homeland far away. Your royal husband delights in your beauty. Reverence him, for he is your lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:9 concubines, literally, “honorable women.”

All your robes are fragrant(A) with myrrh(B) and aloes(C) and cassia;(D)
    from palaces adorned with ivory(E)
    the music of the strings(F) makes you glad.
Daughters of kings(G) are among your honored women;
    at your right hand(H) is the royal bride(I) in gold of Ophir.(J)

10 Listen, daughter,(K) and pay careful attention:(L)
    Forget your people(M) and your father’s house.

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