“ Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. ”
Behold, O God our shield - Our defense, as a shield is a defense in the day of battle. Compare Psalms 5:12 , note; Psalms 18:2 , note; Psalms 33:20 , note. It is an appeal to God as a protecto...
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine (g) anointed. (g) That is, for Christ's sake, whose figure I represent.
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...
shield: i.e. God's provision in Messiah. He is our Shield ( Genesis 15:1 ). Faith's shield ( Ephesians 6:16 ). This shield includes: (1) Favour ( Psalms 5:12 ); (2) Salvation ( Psalms 18:35 ); (3)...
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. Behold, O God, our shield - We have no Protector but thee. Thou seest the deadly blows that are aimed at us; cover our souls; prote...
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. Behold, O God our shield. In the Hebrew, "our shield" stands first for emphasis: all our hope of being shielded from the fo...
This Ps. sets forth the attractiveness of the Temple and its worship ( Psalms 84:1-4 ), and the happiness of the pilgrims who gather to it from different parts of the land ( Psalms 84:5-7 ). After a...
Shield... . anointed. — These are here in direct parallelism. So in Psalms 89:18 . (See Note, and comp. Psalms 47:9 , Note.)
Psalms 84:1-12 THE same longing for and delight in the sanctuary which found pathetic expression in Psalms 42:1-11 and Psalms 43:1-5 , inspire this psalm. Like these, it is ascribed in the supe...
Longing for the House of God Psalms 84:1-12 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 it...
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, pil...
No one can be at a loss to explain this verse, which contains an immediate address to God in the name of Christ. For who is God's anointed but Jesus? Here is a verse all over gospel. No New Testament...
Behold, O God our shield ,.... Which may be considered either as the character of God, who is addressed, who was David's shield, and the shield of his people, to protect and defend them from their e...
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. Ver. 9. Behold ] Not only hear, Psalms 34:15 , with the note. Look upon the face of thine anointed ] Christi, cuius festina...
O Lord God of hosts Who canst easily remove and subdue those enemies who banish and keep me from the place of thy worship; hear my prayer In restoring me to thy house and service; which is my chi...
Delight in God's Ordinances. 8 O L ORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O Go...
Look upon the face; do not turn away thine eyes from him, as men do from those whom they hate or despise, but cast a favourable eye towards him. By face he means either his person, the word face...
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 w...
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...
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 ha...
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 admi...
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 dwel...
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 cit...
1 Samuel 2:10 ; 2 Chronicles 6:42 ; 2 Samuel 23:1 ; Acts 4:27 ; Deuteronomy 33:29 ; Genesis 15:1 ; Psalms 2:2 ; Psalms 2:6 ; Psalms 84:11 ; Psalms 89:20 ; Psalms 98:1
Look — Cast a favourable eye towards him. Anointed — Of me, who though a vile sinner, am thine anointed king.