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Verse Psalms 84:3. _YEA, THE SPARROW HATH FOUND A HOUSE_] It is very
unlikely that sparrows and swallows, or birds of any kind, should be
permitted to build their nests, and hatch their young, in or...
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YEA, THE SPARROW HATH FOUND AN HOUSE - A home; a place where she may
abide, and build her nest, and rear her young. The word here used -
צפור _tsippôr_ - is a name given to a bird from its chirping o...
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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...
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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...
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YEA, THE SPARROW, &C. These two lines are placed within. parenthesis.
SPARROW: or bird.
NEST. Not in the altars. See note below.
EVEN THINE ALTARS. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. Supply it by...
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The happiness of those who find a home in the Temple....
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The Psalmist envies the privilege of the birds which build their nests
within the precincts of the Temple. If even they are allowed to find a
home there, surely he may expect a welcome. As at an earli...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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" ...
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SPARROW. — Heb., _tsippôr,_ which is found up-wards of forty times
in the Old Testament, and is evidently used in a very general way to
include a great number of small birds. “Our common house- sparro...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine (c) altars, O LORD
of hosts, my King, and my God.
(c) So that the poor birds have m...
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I cannot sufficiently admire the beauty of these expressions. The
happiness of a bird freed from all fears, and taking her quiet repose
in a nest, out of the reach of every enemy, in one of the upper...
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3_The sparrow also hath found a house for herself, and the swallow a
nest for herself. _Some read this verse as one continuous sentence,
conveying the idea that the birds made their nests near the alt...
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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...
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YEA, THE SPARROW HATH FOUND AN HOUSE,.... One or other of the houses
of men, where to build its nest; or its nest itself is called an
house, as it seems to be explained in the next clause: the word he...
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Yea, the sparrow hath found an 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.
Ver. 3. _Yea, the sparrow_] _Avis com...
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Psa. 84:3. "Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a
nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars." The
expletive even, which is not in the original, hurts the sense...
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_Yea, the sparrow hath found a house_ That is, a habitation, namely, a
nest, as it follows. _Even thine altar_ Or _nigh thine altar_, as the
Hebrew particle, את, _eth_, often signifies, and is rendere...
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Yea, the sparrow hath found an house and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young, brooding them with tender care,
the reference being to the fact that small birds were permitted to...
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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...
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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...
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THE SPARROW HATH FOUND AN HOUSE, i.e. a habitation, to wit, a nest, as
it here followeth. EVEN THINE ALTAR; or, _nigh_ (as this Hebrew
particle _eth_ is elsewhere used, and as it is rendered by the
Se...
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Psalms 84:3 sparrow H6833 found H4672 (H8804) home H1004 swallow H1866
nest H7064 lay H7896 (H8804) altars...
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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!...
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Psalms 84:3
I. The first point in the analogy is that of rest and home home rest.
The house of God, the house of the Father, and the elder Brother, and
all the children, is, and must be from its natu...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
herself._
SPARROWS AND SWALLOWS
These birds found in the sanctuary what we would find in God.
I. Houses for themselves. That they s...
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_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...
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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.,...
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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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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...
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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...
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Matthew 23:37; Matthew 8:20; Psalms 9:1; Psalms 90:1...