Psalm 45:10 {44:11}
Good News Translation
Bride of the king, listen to what I say--forget your people and your relatives.

New Revised Standard Version
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house,

Contemporary English Version
Bride of the king, listen carefully to me. Forget your own people and your father's family.

New American Bible
Listen, my daughter, and understand; pay me careful heed. Forget your people and your father’s house,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.

Hearken

Songs 2:10-13 Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come. . . .

Isaiah 55:1-3 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:17,18 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: . . .

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

forget

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Genesis 12:1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Deuteronomy 21:13 And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

Deuteronomy 33:9 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Context
My Heart is Stirred by a Noble Theme
9The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety. 10Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house.11And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:13
And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

Ruth 1:16
She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Ruth 1:17
The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.

Psalm 45:9
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