Psalm 84
Verse 1
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O 1 LORD of hosts!
David complains that he cannot have access to the Church of God to make profession of his faith, and to profit in religion.
Verse 2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the 1 courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
For only the priests could enter the sanctuary and the rest of the people into the courts.
Verse 3
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine 1 altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.
Verse 5
Blessed is the man whose 1 strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Who trusts nothing in himself but in you only, and learns from you to rule his life.
Verse 6
Who passing through the valley of 1 Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.
Verse 7
They go from 1 strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
They are never weary but increase in strength and courage till they come to God's house.
Verse 9
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine 1 anointed.
That is, for Christ's sake, whose figure I represent.
Verse 10
For 1 a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
He would rather live one day in God's Church than a thousand in the world.
Verse 11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no 1 good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
But will from time to time increase his blessings toward his more and more.