Psalms 84:9
Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
In Context
8LORD, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
1 Samuel 16:6When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.”
2 Chronicles 6:42“LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”
Psalms 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 17:1Hear, LORD, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
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 →