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Psalm 84 Free Bible Version

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1 For the music director. A psalm of the descendants of Korah. On the gittith. How wonderful is the place where you live, Lord Almighty!
1 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
2 I long, I ache, to be in the courts of the Lord. My mind and my body sing for joy to the living God.
2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3 Even a sparrow finds a home there, and a swallow builds a nest for herself where she can raise her chicks near to your altars, Lord Almighty, my king and my God.
3 Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
4 How happy are those who live in your house—they are always praising you! Selah.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
5 How happy are those whose strength is in you, those who are determined to make a pilgrimage.
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
6 As they walk through the Valley of Tears it becomes a spring of water; autumn rains cover it with pools.
6 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength, and each one will appear before God in Jerusalem.
7 They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
8 Lord God Almighty, please hear my prayer; please listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
8 Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Please God, look at our defender, look at the face of your anointed one.
9 Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.
10 One day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I'd rather stand as a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live comfortably in the homes of the wicked.
10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is our sun and shield, and he gives us grace and honor. The Lord doesn't hold back anything good from those who do right.
11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
12 Lord Almighty, how happy are those who trust in you.
12 Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 27:4; Psalm 43:3; Psalm 36:8; Psalm 122:1; Revelation 21:22–23
  2. 2 Isaiah 26:9; Psalm 42:1–2; Psalm 119:81; Psalm 63:1–2; Psalm 73:26
  3. 3 Psalm 91:1; Psalm 90:1; Matthew 8:20; Psalm 43:4; Psalm 116:7
  4. 4 Psalm 23:6; Psalm 65:4; Psalm 27:4; Isaiah 12:4–5; Psalm 71:8
  5. 5 Psalm 28:7–8; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Zechariah 10:12; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 40:8
  6. 6 2 Corinthians 4:17; Romans 5:3–5; Joel 2:23; John 16:33; Romans 8:37
  7. 7 Proverbs 4:18; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Isaiah 40:31; Job 17:9; John 1:16
  8. 9 Psalm 2:2; Genesis 15:1; Psalm 98:1; Psalm 89:20; 1 Samuel 16:6
  9. 10 Psalm 27:4; Psalm 26:8–10; Psalm 63:2; Philippians 3:20; Romans 8:5–6
  10. 11 Psalm 34:9–10; Proverbs 2:7; Matthew 6:33; Philippians 4:19; Psalm 85:12
  11. 12 Jeremiah 17:7–8; Psalm 62:8; Isaiah 50:10; Isaiah 30:18; Psalm 2:12

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXXIII)

    The people of God, then, in this Psalm saith, "O God, who shall be like unto Thee?" (ver. 1). Which I suppose to be more fitly taken of Christ, because, being made in the likeness of men, He was thought by those by whom He was despised to be comparable to other men: for He was even "reckoned among the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 84:5 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters VI–XI)

    By Thy Gift we are inflamed, and are borne upwards; we wax hot inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go, because we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem; for glad was I when they …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 84:10 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily IV)

    "For I had rather," it is said, "be an outcast in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of sinners." And "one day in thy courts is better than thousands." They would have chosen then ten thousand times rather to be outcasts at home, than kings in Babylon.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 84:2 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book X, Chapters 24–25)

    And hence in another psalm He says, "My soul longeth, yea, even faileth, for the courts of the Lord." Yet, though he had said of both his heart and his flesh that they were failing, he did not say, O God of my heart and my flesh, but, O God of my heart; for by the heart the flesh is …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  5. Quotes verse 84:4 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XXII, Chapter 30)

    I am admonished also by the sacred song, in which I read or hear the words, "Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house, O Lord; they will be still praising Thee." All the members and organs of the incorruptible body, which now we see to be suited to various necessary uses, shall contribute to the praises of God; for …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)