Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes
Psalms 122:2
Psalms 122:2 feet H7272 standing H5975 (H8802) gates H8179 Jerusalem H3389
Psalms 84:7, Psalms 87:1-3, Psalms 100:4; Exodus 20:24; 2 Chronicles 6:6
Psalms 122:2 feet H7272 standing H5975 (H8802) gates H8179 Jerusalem H3389
Psalms 84:7, Psalms 87:1-3, Psalms 100:4; Exodus 20:24; 2 Chronicles 6:6
Verse Psalms 122:2. _OUR FEET SHALL STAND_] For _seventy_ years we have been exiled from our own land; our _heart_ was in Jerusalem, but our _feet_ were in Chaldea. Now God has turned our captivity, a...
OUR FEET SHALL STAND WITHIN THY GATES, O JERUSALEM - We shall enter the sacred city. It appears now in full view before us - its walls, its palaces, its sacred places. We shall not stand and gaze upon...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXII. THE GLORY OF THE TEMPLE. Psalms 122:3. The Psalmist refers probably to the ideal Jerusalem. Every true Jew was in sentiment a loyal burgher of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was like Mecca to the Mohamm...
SHALL STAND. have stood [and shall still stand.] The reference is to the Passover, which had been kept for "all Israel". See App-67. JERUSALEM. Note the Figure of speech _Anadiplosis_ (App-6), the wo...
PSALMS 122 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Tribes Welcomed to the Passover. ANALYSIS (See Inserted Headlines.) (Lm.) Song of the StepsBy David[737] [737] Some cod. (w. Aram., Sep., Vul.) omit: By DavidGn....
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. OUR FEET SHALL STAND WITHIN THY GATES, O JERUSALEM. So it is in this translation, which regulates the tense by that of the previous, "Let us go,...
SHALL STAND] rather, 'were standing,' i.e. came to be standing....
The writer recalls a journey to Jerusalem and the many sacred memories associated with that much-loved city....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 122 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
OUR FEET SHALL STAND. — Rather, _Our feet have been, and are now, standing._ “Here we stand at last at thy gates, O Jerusalem.” “We must imagine the pilgrims arresting their steps to gaze about them a...
עֹ֭מְדֹות הָי֣וּ רַגְלֵ֑ינוּ בִּ֝ שְׁעָרַ֗יִךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃...
Psalms 122:1 THIS is very distinctly a pilgrim psalm. But there is difficulty in determining the singer's precise point of view, arising from the possibility of understanding the phrase in Psalms 122:...
JOY IN GOD'S HOUSE Psalms 122:1 As in the other psalms of the series there is here alternation between soloist and choir. In Psalms 122:1 the _soloist_ rejoices in the proposal made to go on a pilgri...
This is the song of the pilgrims in anticipation of Jerusalem and the house of worship. It sets forth the glory of the establishment and compacted city where the tribes gather to give thanks to Jehova...
Our (b) feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. (b) Which were wont to wander to and fro, as the ark moved....
Masters. Expecting liberty, or rather food; though it may also imply that they are ready to run at the first sign, which they observe with attention. Thus Menelaus had his eyes on Agamemnon. (Homer) ...
Reader! do mark with what rapture the Song speaks of even standing in the Lord's house. And was it so delightful to those who only had types and shadows of good things to come; what then ought to be o...
_WITHIN THE GATES_ ‘Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem!’ Psalms 122:2 The psalm from which this verse is taken was probably written by a pilgrim to Jerusalem at some time previous t...
2._Our feet shall be standing within thy gates, O Jerusalem! _In the Hebrew text the verb is indeed in the past tense, which it would not be unsuitable to retain; but as it makes little _difference _a...
Psalms 122 celebrates Jerusalem. The saint is glad to go there. The tribes go there; the thrones of judgment, of the house of David, are there. His brethren and companions and the house of Jehovah, th...
OUR FEET SHALL STAND WITHIN THY GATES, O JERUSALEM. Which is to be understood not merely literally of the city of Jerusalem, and of continuance in the possession of it, it being lately taken out of th...
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Ver. 2. _Our feet shall stand within thy gates_] Where the ark (at times transported) was now fixed; this was their great joy, so should it be ours...
_I was glad when they said, Let us go_, &c. Or, _We will_ go, _into the house of the Lord_ They are the words of the people, exhorting one another to go and attend upon the worship of God at his taber...
A HYMN OF LOVE FOR THE CHURCH OF GOD. A song of degrees of David, expressing the sacred joy of the faithful in being able to participate in the services of the Temple and to feel the appeal of the ca...
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem, or, "Our feet stood still in thy gates," rooted to the spot for some minutes with astonishment at the glorious beauty of Jerusalem which was present...
1-5 The pleasure and profit from means of grace, should make us disregard trouble and fatigue in going to them; and we should quicken one another to what is good. We should desire our Christian frien...
OUR FEET SHALL STAND; thither we shall come, and there we shall make our abode during the times of solemn worship. WITHIN THY GATES, O JERUSALEM; in that city where the ark is now fixed. We shall wand...
Psalms 122:2 The Psalm from which this verse is taken was probably written by a pilgrim to Jerusalem at some time previous to the Babylonish captivity. On the one hand, it is clear that the house of t...
Psalms 122:1. _I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD._ I was glad for their sake, glad to think they were so willing to go. I was glad also for my own sake, for I wa...
We will read two portions of Scripture relating to public worship; the first will be Psalms 122:1 , one of David's «Songs of degrees.» (See Luke 18:1 for second portion.) Psalms 122:1. I was glad whe...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the welfare of Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When peace comes to Jerusalem there will be peace for all the world, therefore the saints should earnestly pray for...
Psalms 122:4. _The tribes go up,_ because they found all the testimonials of the covenant there; and because the thrones of David's house would decide their causes with equity. Therefore this psalm co...
_I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord._ A PIOUS PATRIOT I. Rejoicing in the opportunity for assembling for public worship (verses 1, 2). 1. One of the grandest so...
_Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem._ JERUSALEM The psalm was probably written by a pilgrim to Jerusalem at some time previous to the Babylonish Captivity. On the one hand, it is clea...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 122:1. This psalm celebrates Zion as God’s chosen city (compare Psalms 46:1;...
INTRODUCTION This Psalm, which the title ascribes to David, was probably composed by him after he had settled the Ark in Mount Zion, to encourage the people to resort to Jerusalem to the three annual...
EXPOSITION THE "title" assigns this psalm to David; and there seems to be no sufficient reason why his authorship should not be accepted. The description of Jerusalem exactly suits his day (Psalms 122...
Psa 122:1-9 continues. The idea is I'm traveling now towards Jerusalem. I'm with probably a company of fifty, a hundred people. They always got together for these trips to Jerusalem. That is why, actu...
2 Chronicles 6:6; Exodus 20:24; Psalms 8:1; Psalms 84:7...