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III

11 Listen, my daughter, and understand;
    pay me careful heed.
Forget your people and your father’s house,[a]
12     that the king might desire your beauty.
He is your lord;

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Footnotes

  1. 45:11 Forget your people and your father’s house: the bride should no longer consider herself a daughter of her father’s house, but the wife of the king—the queen.

14 All glorious is the king’s daughter as she enters,(A)
    her raiment threaded with gold;
15 In embroidered apparel she is led to the king.
    The maids of her train are presented to the king.
16 They are led in with glad and joyous acclaim;
    they enter the palace of the king.

IV

17 The throne of your fathers your sons will have;
    you shall make them princes through all the land.(B)

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