You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. (Psalm 45: 7-9)
This is a song written for the wedding of King David to a Phoenician Princess. It came to be heard as a song anticipating the messiah.
We have been invited to a wedding banquet. We need only accept. We need only to arrive ready to dance, and drink, and celebrate.
We are to put on our best robes - both physical and metaphorical. We are to arrive in joyful anticipation. We are to be glad.
Above is the Wedding Banquet in the Nymphs' Grotto by Marc Chagall
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