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<p id="Chapter84" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 84
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<p id="Ps84_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',84,'1-12');">Psa 84:1-12</a>.
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<p>(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa008.html#Ps8_1">Psa 8:1</a>, title, and JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa042.html#Ps42_1">Psa 42:1</a>, title). The writer describes the desirableness of God's worship and prays for a restoration to its privileges.</a>
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<p><b>1. amiable</b>—not lovely, but beloved.
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<br><br><b>tabernacles</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',43,3);">Psa 43:3</a>).
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<p id="Ps84_2"><b>2. longeth</b>—most intensely (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',31,30);">Gen 31:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',17,12);">Psa 17:12</a>).
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<br><br><b>fainteth</b>—exhausted with desire.
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<br><br><b>courts</b>—as tabernacles (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',84,1);">Psa 84:1</a>) —the whole building.
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<br><br><b>crieth out</b>—literally, "sings for joy"; but here, and <a onclick="return mV('Lam',2,19);">Lam 2:19</a>, expresses an act of sorrow as the corresponding noun (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',17,1);">Psa 17:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',61,2);">61:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>heart and...flesh</b>—as in <a onclick="return mV('Psa',63,1);">Psa 63:1</a>.
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<p id="Ps84_3"><b>3. thine altars</b>—that is, of burnt offering and incense, used for the whole tabernacle. Its structure afforded facilities for sparrows and swallows to indulge their known predilections for such places. Some understand the statement as to the birds as a comparison: "as they find homes, so do I desire <i>thine altars,</i>" etc.
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<p id="Ps84_4"><b>4.</b> This view is favored by the language here, which, as in <a onclick="return mV('Psa',15,1);">Psa 15:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',23,6);">23:6</a>, recognizes the blessing of membership in God's family by terms denoting a <i>dwelling in His house.</i>
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<p id="Ps84_5"><b>5.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',68,28);">Psa 68:28</a>).
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<br><br><b>in whose heart...the ways</b>—that is, who knows and loves the way to God's favor (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',16,17);">Pro 16:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',40,3,4);">Isa 40:3-4</a>).
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<p id="Ps84_6"><b>6. valley of Baca</b>—or, "weeping." Through such, by reason of their dry and barren condition, the worshippers often had to pass to Jerusalem. As they might become wells, or fountains, or pools, supplied by refreshing rain, so the grace of God, by the exercises of His worship, refreshes and revives the hearts of His people, so that for sorrows they have "rivers of delight" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',36,8);">Psa 36:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',46,4);">46:4</a>).
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<p id="Ps84_7"><b>7.</b> The figure of the pilgrim is carried out. As such daily refit their bodily strength till they reach Jerusalem, so the spiritual worshipper is daily supplied with spiritual strength by God's grace till he appears before God in heaven.
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<br><br><b>appeareth...God</b>—the terms of the requisition for the attendance on the feasts (compare <a onclick="return mV('Deu',16,16);">Deu 16:16</a>),
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<p id="Ps84_9"><b>9.</b> God is addressed as a shield (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',84,11);">Psa 84:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>thine anointed</b>—David (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',16,12);">1Sa 16:12</a>).
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<p id="Ps84_10"><b>10. I had...doorkeeper</b>—literally, "I choose to sit on the threshold," the meanest place.
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<p id="Ps84_11"><b>11, 12.</b> As a sun God enlightens (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',27,1);">Psa 27:1</a>); as a shield He protects.
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<br><br><b>grace</b>—God's favor, its fruit—
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<br><br><b>glory</b>—the honor He bestows.
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<br><br><b>uprightly</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',15,2);">Psa 15:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,23);">18:23</a>).
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<p id="Ps84_12"><b>12. that trusteth</b>—constantly.
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