Psalm 45:2 {44:3}
Good News Translation
You are the most handsome of men; you are an eloquent speaker. God has always blessed you.

New Revised Standard Version
You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Contemporary English Version
No one is as handsome as you! Your words are always kind. That is why God will always bless you.

New American Bible
You are the most handsome of men; fair speech has graced your lips, for God has blessed you forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

fairer

Songs 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

Songs 5:10-16 My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands. . . .

Zechariah 9:17 For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?

Matthew 17:2 And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

Colossians 1:15-18 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: . . .

Hebrews 1:3,4 Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high: . . .

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Revelation 1:13-18 And in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, one like to the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. . . .

grace

Proverbs 22:11 He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Luke 4:22 And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

John 7:46 The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

God

Psalm 21:6 For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

Psalm 72:17-19 Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him. . . .

Philippians 2:9-11 For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: . . .

Context
My Heart is Stirred by a Noble Theme
1Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved. [2] My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. 2Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty.…
Cross References
Luke 4:22
And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

Psalm 21:6
For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

Songs 5:10
My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.

Psalm 45:1
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