Psalms 84:1
How dearly loved is the place where you live, Lord of hosts!
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
In Context
2How I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord. Now heart and flesh cry for joy to the living God.
Cross References
Psalms 8:1Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,
Psalms 36:8They feast on the fat of your house, they drink of your brook of delights.
Psalms 43:3Send forth your light and your truth, let them be my guides: to your holy hill let them bring me, to the place where you live.
Psalms 81:1Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
Psalms 103:20Bless the Lord, you angels of his, mighty heroes performing his word.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 84:1
Though David's name be not in the title of this psalm, yet we have reason to think he was the penman of it, because it breathes so much of his excellent spirit and is so much like the sixty-third psalm which was penned by him; it is supposed that David penned this psalm when he was forced by Absalom's rebellion to quit his city, which he lamented his absence from, not so much because it was the royal city as because it was the holy city, witness this psalm, which contains the pious breathings of a gracious soul… Read the whole commentary →