1. My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter:

1. I speak the things which I have made touching the king:

1. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

2. Thou art fairer than the children of men;

2. Grace is poured into thy lips:

2. Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

3. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,

3. Thy glory and thy majesty.

4. And in thy majesty ride on prosperously,

4. Because of truth and meekness and righteousness:

4. And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

5. Thine arrows are sharp;

5. The peoples fall under thee;

5. They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:

6. A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

7. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness:

7. Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee

7. With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

8. All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia;

8. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

9. Kings' daughters are among thy honourable women:

9. At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

10. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;

10. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

11. So shall the king desire thy beauty:

11. For he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

12. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;

12. Even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

13. The king's daughter within the palace is all glorious:

13. Her clothing is inwrought with gold.

14. She shall be led unto the king in broidered work:

14. The virgins her companions that follow her

14. Shall be brought unto thee.

15. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led:

15. They shall enter into the king's palace.

16. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,

16. Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

17. I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:

17. Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.