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Psalm 45:7

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

5Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
6Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
9Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
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The oil of gladness follows praise for the king’s love of righteousness, joining moral seriousness with joy in a way that can challenge expectations.

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Psalm 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.Both passages describe God anointing someone with oil, with gladness in Psalm 45 and an overflowing cup in Psalm 23.
Isaiah 61:1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim …Both describe anointing by God, though Isaiah names a mission of good news and freedom while the psalm celebrates the king’s gladness.
Hebrews 1:9You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”Hebrews quotes the psalm’s praise of righteousness and rejection of wickedness, including God’s anointing with the oil of gladness.
Isaiah 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, …Both associate oil with joy and speak of righteousness, though Isaiah addresses mourners and the psalm addresses the king.
Psalm 21:6For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.Both portray God as the giver of gladness to the one being celebrated.
Psalm 92:10But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.Both pair anointing with honor: the king stands above his fellows, while Psalm 92 describes an exalted horn.
Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was …Both describe God’s anointing and goodness: the king loves righteousness, and Jesus goes about doing good.
Psalm 33:5Love of righteousness is shared language: Psalm 45 praises it in the king, and Psalm 33 declares it of God.
Isaiah 10:27It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the …Both mention anointing oil, though Isaiah connects it with a broken yoke and the psalm with royal gladness.
Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,The shared thread is God’s generosity: he grants the king gladness in the psalm and blesses believers in Christ in Ephesians.
Colossians 1:18–19He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.Both speak of distinction, though the king’s place above his fellows differs in scope from Christ’s preeminence in all things.
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God’s gift of gladness crowns the king’s love of righteousness and hatred of wickedness. In this royal song, holiness and joy belong together.

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