Psalm 84:12

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 84:12

Earth. Good men preserve a clear conscience. (Worthington) --- Virtues of every description (Menochius) are become common among God's people, (Calmet) particularly Christians, though our Saviour may here be styled justice. (Menochius) --- He was born of a pure virgin. (St. Jerome) (Lyranus) --- Jam redit et virgo; redeunt saturnia regna. (Virgil, Eclogues iv.) (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 84:8-12

8-12 In all our addresses to God, we must desire that he would look on Christ, his Anointed One, and accept us for his sake: we must look to Him with faith, and then God will with favour look upon the face of the Anointed: we, without him, dare not show our faces. The psalmist pleads love to God's ordinances. Let us account one day in God's courts better than a thousand spent elsewhere; and deem the meanest place in his service preferable to the highest earthly preferment. We are here in... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 84:1-12

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 of Gath, a psalm for the sons of Korah, one of the members of this family having been the author of this hymn praising the worship of the true God. v. 1. How amiable are Thy tabernacles, the places where God revealed Himself being both worthy of love and beloved by those who realize their... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 84:1-12

Psalms 84:0To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah2 How amiable are thy tabernacles,O Lord of hosts!3 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord:My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.4 Yea, the sparrow hath found a 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.5 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:They will be still praising thee.... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Psalms 84:12

Psalms BLESSED TRUST Psa_84:12 . In my last sermon from the central portion of this psalm I pointed out that the Psalmist thrice celebrates the blessedness of certain types of character, and that these threefold benedictions constitute, as it were, the keynotes of the portions of the psalm in which they respectively occur. They are these: ‘Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house’; ‘Blessed is the man in whose heart are the ways’; and this final one, ‘Blessed is the man that trusteth in... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 84:1-12

Longing for the House of God Psalms 84:1-12 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 form may have been due to the sons of Korah. It is divided into three parts by the Selahs . They who dwell in thy house , Psalms 84:1-4 . The psalmist envies the winged things that rest in those hallowed precincts, and how much more the priests and Levites who serve there! Foxes have holes... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 84:1-12

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, pilgrim’s prayer (vv. Psa 84:9-12 ). The hope of the pilgrim is centred in the dwelling-place of God. The earthly temple suggests the heavenly home. It is a place of rest and of worship. The light of it shines upon the pathway, and is the inspiration of the pilgrimage. The experience of the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 84:1-12

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 name, finds his rest and joy in proximity to the altars of his God. “ Altars” may be a poetical plural, like “ holy places” in Psalms 68:35 ( cf. especially Psalms 132:5; Psalms 132:7). To take the words as if they meant that the birds in the literal sense found a home at the altar would... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 84:12

Who, though he be deprived of the opportunity of paying that outward worship to thee which is appropriated to thy house, yet giveth thee that inward worship which is more valuable in thy account, and placeth his chief trust, and hope, and happiness in thee alone. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 84:1-12

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“To the chief Musician upon Gittith.” (See Introduction to Psalms 81:0) “A Psalm for the sons of Korah.” (See Introduction to Psalms 42:0)Occasion.—The Psalm was evidently composed when the writer was exiled from the sanctuary. It was probably written by David when he was compelled to flee from Jerusalem by reason of the rebellion of Absalom. He laments this chiefly because it separated him from “the courts of the Lord.” Homiletically, the Psalm sets forth, The... read more

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