Psalms 84
84
Longing for God
For the Pure and Shining One
A prophetic song written by the prophetic singers of Korah’s clan
Set to the melody of “For the Feast of Harvest” # 84 The Septuagint reads “For the wine vats.”
1God of Heaven’s Armies, you find so much beauty in your people!
They’re like lovely # 84:1 The Hebrew word for “lovely” used here can also mean “beloved.” This translation includes both of these concepts in this verse. sanctuaries of your presence.
2Deep within me are these lovesick longings,
desires and daydreams of living in union with you.
When I’m near you, my heart and my soul
will sing and worship with my joyful songs of you,
my true source and spring of life!
3O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God,
even the sparrows and swallows are welcome to build a nest
among your altars to raise their young.
4What pleasure fills those who live every day in your temple,
enjoying you as they worship in your presence!
Pause in his presence
5How enriched are they who find their strength in the Lord; # 84:5 The Aramaic reads “How blessed is the Son of Man with you as his helper.”
within their hearts are the highways of holiness! # 84:5 The Hebrew is literally “Roads are in their hearts.” It implies the ways [roads or “highways”] that lead us to God’s holy presence.
6Even when their paths wind through the dark valley of tears,
they dig deep to find a pleasant pool where others find only pain.
He gives to them a brook of blessing
filled from the rain of an outpouring.
7They grow stronger and stronger with every step forward,
and the God of all gods will appear before them in Zion.
8Hear my cry, O God of Heaven’s Armies!
God of Jacob, listen to my loving prayer.
Pause in his presence
9God, your wraparound presence is our defense.
In your kindness look upon the faces of your anointed ones. # 84:9 Or “the face of your Anointed [Christ].”
10For just one day of intimacy with you # 84:10 Or “in your [temple] courts.” is like
a thousand days of joy rolled into one!
I’d rather stand at the threshold in front of the Gate Beautiful,
ready to go in and worship my God,
than to live my life without you
in the most beautiful palace of the wicked.
11For the Lord God is brighter than the brilliance of a sunrise!
Wrapping himself around me like a shield,
he is so generous with his gifts of grace and glory.
Those who walk along his paths with integrity
will never lack one thing they need, for he provides it all!
12O Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
what euphoria fills those who forever trust in you!
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84
Prayer of a Pilgrim to Jerusalem
1For the leader; “upon the gittith.” A psalm of the Korahites.
I
2How lovely your dwelling,
O Lord of hosts!#Ps 43:3–4; 122:1.
3My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the Lord.#Ps 42:2–3; 63:2–3; 143:6; Is 26:9.
My heart and flesh cry out
for the living God.
4#The desire of a restless bird for a secure home is an image of the desire of a pilgrim for the secure house of God, cf. Ps 42:2–3, where the image for the desire of the pilgrim is the thirst of the deer for water.As the sparrow finds a home
and the swallow a nest to settle her young,
My home is by your altars,
Lord of hosts, my king and my God!#Ps 5:3.
5Blessed are those who dwell in your house!
They never cease to praise you.
Selah
II
6Blessed the man who finds refuge in you,
in their hearts are pilgrim roads.
7As they pass through the Baca valley,#Baca valley: Hebrew obscure; probably a valley on the way to Jerusalem.
they find spring water to drink.
The early rain covers it with blessings.
8They will go from strength to strength#Strength to strength: pass through outer and inner wall.
and see the God of gods on Zion.
III
9Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
listen, God of Jacob.
Selah
10#Our shield…your anointed: the king had a role in the liturgical celebration. For the king as shield, cf. Ps 89:19.O God, watch over our shield;
look upon the face of your anointed.#Ps 89:19.
IV
11Better one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere.
Better the threshold of the house of my God
than a home in the tents of the wicked.
12For a sun and shield is the Lord God,
bestowing all grace and glory.
The Lord withholds no good thing
from those who walk without reproach.
13O Lord of hosts,
blessed the man who trusts in you!
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