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Psalm 84
Psalm 84
1For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Commentary · verse 1
2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
3Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God.
2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Commentary · verses 2-3
The psalmist would have been happy to be able to have his home as a sparrow did, by God's altars.
4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah
4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Commentary · verse 4
"Selah" meant "pause and think about what you just read." The author wanted the reader to pause and become conscious of what was read.
5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose heart are the highways to Zion.
5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Commentary · verse 5
A man whose strength was in God was blessed.
6Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.
7They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.
8O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Commentary · verses 6-8
The psalmist took time to ask God to hear (obey) his prayer.
9Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of thine anointed.
10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Commentary · verses 9-10
One day in God's courts was considered by the psalmist as better than 1,000 days anywhere else.
11For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12O Jehovah of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Commentary · verses 11-12
God gave good (Right and Just) liberally to those who lived uprightly and blessed was any man whose faith was in God.
God's tabernacles were considered "amiable." The word "amiable" when used to describe something, not someone, meant "lovely."