Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 84:7
They go — They grow stronger and stronger. Appeareth — This is added as the blessed fruit of their long and tedious journey.
They go — They grow stronger and stronger. Appeareth — This is added as the blessed fruit of their long and tedious journey.
Verse Psalms 84:7. _THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH_] They proceed from one degree of grace to another, gaining Divine virtue through all the steps of their probation. EVERY ONE OF THEM _IN ZION A...
THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH ... - Margin,” company to company.” The Septuagint and Vulgate, “They go from strength to strength; the God of gods is seen in Zion.” Luther, “They obtain one victory...
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...
EVERY ONE OF THEM IN ZION APPEARETH BEFORE GOD. he appeareth before God in Zion. Note the singular, "he appeareth": i.e. "the man" of Psalms 84:5. The valley of Baca thus becomes the valley of _Berach...
Yet not only those are happy, who reside within the precincts of the Temple, but those who in the strength of God surmounting every obstacle appear in His Presence and offer their prayers....
_They go from strength to strength_ Instead of fainting on their toilsome journey they gain fresh strength as they advance. Cp. Isaiah 40:31, and for the form of expression, John 1:16; 2 Corinthians 3...
BLESSED IS THE MAN, &C.— These words may be rendered, _Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; the highways are in the midst of them: Who, passing through the valley of Baca, turn it into a spri...
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...
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. -Second part of the First strophe. The rich consolation in God which belongs to believers, like David, even in tro...
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH] The pilgrimage brings no weariness, but the opposite: see Isaiah 40:31, and cp. 'The Pilgrim's Progress.'...
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" ...
(5-7) In these verses, as in the analogous picture (Isaiah 35:6; comp. Hosea 2:15), there is a blending of the real and the figurative; the _actual_ journey towards Sion is represented as accompanied...
THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH — _i.e.,_ each difficulty surmounted adds fresh courage and vigour. “And he who flagg’d not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing, only he His so...
_[Psalms 84:8]_ יֵ֭לְכוּ מֵ חַ֣יִל אֶל ־חָ֑יִל...
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...
They go from (f) strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God. (f) They are never weary but increase in strength and courage till they come to God's house....
_Turn, conversus. The ancient psalters read convertens. "Converting, O God, thou wilt bring us to life," free us from captivity, and redeem us from sin by Jesus Christ, the conqueror of death. (Calmet...
What though the people of God have a wilderness to go through, Baca, a weeping place, and are themselves as Bochim, weepers, Judges 2:5; nevertheless, while coming up out of it, leaning upon, looking...
7_They will go from strength to strength. _In this verse the same sentiment is repeated. Mount Zion being the place where, according to the appointment of the law, the holy assemblies were observed, a...
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...
THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH,.... Whose strength is in the Lord, and in whose heart are his ways, and who pass through the valley of Baca, and find a well of supply, and pools of blessings there;...
They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God. Ver. 7. _They go from strength to strength_] _i.e._ Lustily and constantly, _turma turmae subinde sese adiungente,...
_They go from strength to strength_ The farther they travel onward in that way, instead of being faint and weary, as travellers in such cases are wont to be, they grow stronger and stronger, being gre...
They go from strength to strength, receiving an ever greater amount the nearer they approach the Holy City, EVERYONE OF THEM IN ZION APPEARETH BEFORE GOD, having reached his goal in safety. The prayer...
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...
FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: Or, from company to company...
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...
THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH; the farther they travel onward in that way, instead of being faint and weary, as travellers in such cases use to be, they grow stronger and stronger, being greatly r...
Psalms 84:7 go H3212 (H8799) strength H2428 strength H2428 appears H7200 (H8735) God H430 Zion H6726 Th
Psalms 84:7 _(with Ephesians 4:15)_ There is a whole "Pilgrim's Progress" in this text from the wicket-gate to the Celestial City. And, indeed, it is a pilgrim's song, the song of the Israelites asce...
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...
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...
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...
_They go from strength to strength._ THE THEORY OF TRUE PROGRESS What is the true progress of man? We say progress of “man” in contradistinction to the progress of ideas, “graces,” principles, facul...
_Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee._ SOUL STRENGTH I. It springs from a special connection with God. “Whose strength is in Thee.” In what does a soul’s strength consist? 1. Disinterested...
_How amiable are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! _ A GOOD MAN IN RELATION TO THE SCENES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP I. As deprived of these privileges. In his deprivation he reveals-- 1. A devout admiratio...
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.,...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 84:5 Those who make the journey to Zion to worship are BLESSED. Their STRENGTH IS IN God, to sustain them on the way. The HIGHWAYS are in their hearts, which pro
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...
EXPOSITION This psalm, attributed (see title) to the "sons of Korah," or the Korahite Levites (see 1 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 20:19), describes the blessedness of their position as dwellers in th...
Psa 84:1-12 is a beautiful psalm of the tabernacles of God. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for...
1 Thessalonians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Peter 3:18; Deuteronomy 16:16;...