Psalms 84:9
I will listen to what the Lord God may be saying to me. For he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those who are being converted to the heart.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
In Context
8O Lord, reveal to us your mercy, and grant to us your salvation.
10So then, truly his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory may inhabit our land.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, the people who are saved by the Lord? He is the shield of your assistance and the sword of your glory. Your enemies will refuse to acknowledge you, and so you shall tread upon their necks.”
1 Samuel 16:6And when they had entered, he saw Eliab, and he said, “Could he be the Christ in the sight of the Lord?”
2 Chronicles 6:42O Lord God, may you not turn away from the face of your Christ. Remember the mercies of your servant, David.”
Psalms 2:6Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, preaching his precepts.
Psalms 17:1Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:
Psalms 84:11Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 84:9-12
Delight in God's Ordinances. 8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For 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. 11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in… Read the whole commentary →