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Psalms 45:10
Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A royal voice (likely the king or his herald) addresses a foreign princess at the moment of her wedding, between her introduction as honored queen (v. 9) and the command to bow to her lord (v. 11).
The words — שִׁכְחִי (shikh.Chi, "forget") is a second-feminine imperative, not a suggestion but a direct command; paired with עַמֶּךָ ('aMe.kh, "your people"), it targets her entire national and familial identity, not merely a feeling.
The thread — The same movement from old allegiance to new appears in Genesis 12:1 (leave your kindred and father's house) and Matthew 10:37 (love me more than family); Song of Solomon 2:10 echoes the "come away" motif.
Why it lands — The verse demands that the bride's prior identity—nation, family, social position—be actively set aside, not merely de-emphasized, in order to enter a new lordship.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
Cross-references
- Song of Solomon 2:10 My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
- Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Matthew 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Deuteronomy 21:13 and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 33:9 He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
- Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- 2 Corinthians 5:16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.