My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the (b) courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
(b) For only the priests could enter the sanctuary and the rest of the people into the courts.
Verse Psalms 84:2. _MY SOUL LONGETH_] It is a Levite that speaks, who ardently longs to regain his place in the temple, and his part in the sacred services. _MY HEART AND MY FLESH_] All the desires o...
MY SOUL LONGETH - The word used here means properly to be pale; then, to be faint or weak; and then, to pine after, to long for, to desire earnestly. It would properly denote such a longing or desire...
PSALM 84-89 Psalms 84 In View of the Sanctuary _ 1. Heart longings (Psalms 84:1)_ 2. In the sanctuary (Psalms 84:8) The two next Psalms are of the sons of Korah, who themselves are monuments of s...
LXXXIV. A PILGRIM PSALM. Psalms 84:3. sparrow (rather little bird generally) and SWALLOW are metaphorical for pious Jewish pilgrims. As the birds find their nests and homes, so the Jew, worthy of the...
MY SOUL LONGETH. I, even. myself, long. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13), for emphasis. courts. Corresponding with "altars" (Psalms 84:3). See the Structure. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebre...
The Psalmist's delight in the house of God....
My soul hath pined, yea, even fainted. The verbs are perfects, and it seems best to suppose that he is recalling the earnest longings which are even now finding satisfaction, as his feet stand in the...
DISCOURSE: 639 DIVINE ORDINANCES LOVELY Psalms 84:1. Haw amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out...
MY HEART AND MY FLESH CRIETH OUT FOR THE LIVING GOD. YEA, THE SPARROW, &C.— Or, _My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God:_ Psalms 84:3. (_Yea, as a sparrow, till she finds a house, and a s...
PSALMS 84 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Longing of a Levite for the Habitations of Jehovah in Zion, with Inspiring Memories of a Past Pilgrimage and Exultant Joy in Renewed Service. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psa...
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. MY SOUL LONGETH, YEA, EVEN FAINTETH FOR THE COURTS OF THE LORD. "Courts" is a po...
This Ps. sets forth the attractiveness of the Temple and its worship (Psalms 84:1), and the happiness of the pilgrims who gather to it from different parts of the land (Psalms 84:5). After a prayer fo...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ JOURNEY TO ZION PSALMS 84 Jesus said, "Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head" ...
LONGETH. — From root meaning to _grow pale,_ expressing one effect of strong emotion — _grows pale with longing._ So the Latin poets used _pallidus_ to express the effects of passionate love, and gene...
_[Psalms 84:3]_ נִכְסְפָ֬ה וְ גַם ־כָּלְתָ֨ה ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮...
Psalms 84:1 THE same longing for and delight in the sanctuary which found pathetic expression in Psalms 42:1 and Psalms 43:1, inspire this psalm. Like these, it is ascribed in the superscription to th...
LONGING FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD Psalms 84:1 This is one of the sweetest of the Psalms. David probably composed it during his absence from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's rebellion, though its final...
This is a pilgrim psalm. It falls into three strophes divided by Selahs. The first describes the pilgrim's hope (vv. Psa 84:1-4); the second, the pilgrim's experience (vv. Psa 84:5-8); the third, pilg...
Blessed. Hebrew, "taken into favour," or "hast rendered fruitful." (Judea) (Calmet) --- God had bestowed many benefits upon his people, rescuing them from the Egyptian bondage, and not punishing them...
Though the latter part of this rapturous Psalm evidently belongs to the church, and is the language of the church concerning Christ; yet I do not see wherefore the former part may not be supposed to b...
I have observed, that in the second verse a more than ordinary ardor of desire is expressed. The first verb, כספ, _casaph, _signifies _vehemently to desire; _but not contented with this word, David ad...
Psalms 84 contemplates the blessedness of going up to the courts of Jehovah, yet, in the figurative allusion to the road thither, refers to the path of tears which His people have had to tread towards...
MY SOUL LONGETH, YEA, EVEN FAINTETH FOR THE COURTS OF THE LORD,.... The courts of the tabernacle now at Gibeon, though the ark was in Zion, 2 Chronicles 1:3 as the court of the priests, and the court...
_My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God._ Ver. 2. _My soul longeth_] As she did who said, Give me children or else I die....
LONGING FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE WORD OF GOD. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be used in public worship with the accompaniment of a stringed instrument brought by David from the Philistine city o...
My soul longeth, with intensive desire, YEA, EVEN FAINTETH, exhausted and almost parched with spiritual thirst, FOR THE COURTS OF THE LORD, where the congregation assembled for worship; MY HEART AND M...
1-7 The ordinances of God are the believer's solace in this evil world; in them he enjoys the presence of the living God: this causes him to regret his absence from them. They are to his soul as the...
FAINTETH, or, _is consumed_, with grief for want of them, and with vehement desire to enjoy them, and with the deferring and disappointment of his hopes. See PROVERBS 13:12. FOR THE COURTS; to enter i...
Psalms 84:2 soul H5315 longs H3700 (H8738) faints H3615 (H8804) courts H2691 LORD H3068 heart H3820 flesh...
Psalms 84:1 I. Consider who is the Father of this home. He is the almighty God. With what confidence it becomes the children of such a Father to depend on their home being replenished with happiness!...
Psalms 84:2 The whole of this Psalm is the uttered desire of a soul for public worship. Yet, after all, the Psalmist reaches the climax of desire not when he speaks of the sanctuary, but of God Himse...
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is thought, by some interpreters, that Gittith signifies the winepress. They must have been a very godly people who sang such song...
A Psalm for the sons of Korah. You remember how Korah, Dathan, and Abiram were destroyed because of their rebellion against the Lord, and their revolt against his chosen servant, Moses and Aaron, and...
May the Spirit of God bless to us every syllable of this familiar Psalm as we read it! Psalms 84:1. _How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the cour...
Psalms 84:1. _How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!_ «Though they are only tabernacles, temporary structures that are soon to be taken down, and carried away, they are very dear to us. Th...
CONTENTS: Testimony to God's goodness and the happiness of those who put their confidence in Him. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Jacob. CONCLUSION: True subjects love the courts of their King. Favored in...
Though the writer of this psalm is not named in the title, yet it is not doubted but David was the author. Psalms 84:1. _How amiable are thy tabernacles._ The word is plural, for the tabernacle had th...
_My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God._ THE PROFOUNDEST HUNGER OF HUMAN NATURE The words “soul, heart, flesh,” are here...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 84:1. This is a psalm celebrating pilgrimage to Jerusalem to worship at the temple. It is very much like the hymns in praise of Zion as God’s special place (e.g.,...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Gittith_.” (See Introduction to Psalms 81) “_A Psalm for the sons of Korah_.” (See Introduction to Psalms 42) _Occasion_.—The Psalm was evi...
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Isaiah 26:9; Isaiah 64:1; Job 23:3; Psalms 119:20; Psalms 119:81;...