诗篇 84:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為耶和華　神是太陽，是盾牌，耶和華賜下恩惠和光榮；他沒有留下一樣好處，不給那些行為正直的人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 耶 和 华 ─ 　 神 是 日 头 ， 是 盾 牌 ， 要 赐 下 恩 惠 和 荣 耀 。 他 未 尝 留 下 一 样 好 处 不 给 那 些 行 动 正 直 的 人 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ Lord God All-Powerful, hear my prayer; God of Jacob, listen to me. Selah ⁹ God, look at our shield; be kind to your appointed king. ¹⁰ One day in the courtyards of your Temple is better than a thousand days anywhere else. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the Temple of my God than live in the homes of the wicked. ¹¹ The Lord God is like a sun and shield; the Lord gives us kindness and honor. He does not hold back anything good from those whose lives are innocent. ¹² Lord All-Powerful, happy are the people who trust you!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a sun: Psalms 27:1, Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20, Malachi 4:2, John 1:9, John 8:12, Revelation 21:23

shield: Psalms 84:9, Psalms 3:3, Psalms 47:9, Psalms 115:9-11, Psalms 119:114, Genesis 15:1, Proverbs 2:7

the Lord: John 1:16, Romans 8:16-18, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Philippians 1:6

no: Psalms 34:9, Psalms 34:10, Psalms 85:12, Matthew 6:33, Philippians 4:19

walk: Psalms 15:2, Proverbs 2:7, Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 28:6, Proverbs 28:18, Micah 2:7, Galatians 2:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:8 - General Genesis 20:6 - withheld Genesis 49:25 - with blessings Deuteronomy 18:2 - the Lord Deuteronomy 33:14 - the precious Deuteronomy 33:29 - the shield 2 Samuel 12:8 - I would 2 Samuel 17:29 - to eat 2 Samuel 22:3 - shield 2 Samuel 22:24 - upright 2 Samuel 22:29 - lamp 2 Samuel 22:36 - the shield 1 Kings 3:13 - And I 1 Chronicles 5:20 - because Job 1:8 - upright Job 17:9 - hold on Job 22:25 - the Almighty Job 29:3 - by his light Psalms 4:5 - put Psalms 5:12 - shield Psalms 7:10 - My Psalms 18:30 - a buckler Psalms 19:13 - upright Psalms 23:1 - I shall Psalms 28:7 - shield Psalms 34:22 - none Psalms 40:4 - Blessed Psalms 59:11 - our shield Psalms 73:1 - God Psalms 73:24 - receive Psalms 89:18 - the Lord is Psalms 106:3 - Blessed Psalms 125:4 - upright Proverbs 2:21 - General Proverbs 30:5 - pure Ecclesiastes 11:7 - a pleasant Isaiah 10:17 - the light Daniel 3:28 - that trusted Daniel 6:22 - forasmuch Micah 7:8 - the Lord Nahum 1:7 - strong hold Matthew 7:11 - good Mark 10:30 - an hundredfold Luke 12:31 - General John 1:4 - the life Romans 8:31 - If Romans 8:32 - how 2 Corinthians 6:10 - and 2 Corinthians 9:8 - God 1 Timothy 4:8 - having 1 Timothy 6:6 - godliness 1 Timothy 6:17 - but Titus 2:11 - the grace Hebrews 10:22 - a true James 1:17 - from the 2 Peter 1:3 - all 1 John 1:5 - that God 1 John 2:8 - and the Revelation 12:1 - clothed Revelation 22:5 - no night

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord God is a sun and shield,.... Christ is "the sun of righteousness", and it is in the house of God that he arises upon his people with healing in his wings, Malachi 4:2 he is like the sun, the great light, the fountain of light, the light of the world, that dispels darkness, makes day, and gives light to all the celestial bodies, moon and stars, church and ministers; he is a "sun" to enlighten his people with the light of grace, to warm them with the beams of his love, to cheer and refresh their souls with the light of his countenance, and to make them fruitful and flourishing and he is a "shield" to protect them from all their enemies; he is the shield of faith, or which faith makes use of, against the temptations of Satan; he is the shield of salvation, and his salvation is a shield which shelters from divine justice, and secures from wrath to come:

the Lord will give grace and glory: he gives converting grace, the first grace, and all future supplies of it; he gives sanctifying grace, all sorts of it, faith, hope, love, and every other; he gives justifying, pardoning, adopting, and persevering grace, and all freely; he gives honour and glory among men, fellow creatures, and fellow Christians; and he gives eternal glory, the glory his Father gave him, the crown of glory, life, and righteousness: this is the gift of God through Christ; Christ gives a right unto it, meetness for it, and the thing itself; and in his house and ordinances, as he gives more grace to the humble that wait upon him, so he encourages and increases their hope of glory; and he that gives the one will certainly give the other; for these two are inseparably connected together, so that he that has the one shall enjoy the other:

no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly; that walk by faith, and on in Christ, as they have received him; who have their conversation according to the Gospel of Christ, and walk in the uprightness and sincerity of their hearts; from such the Lord will not withhold any good thing he has purposed for them, promised to them, or laid up for them in covenant; no spiritual good thing appertaining to life and godliness, and no temporal blessing that is good for them; he will deny them no good thing they ask of him, not anything that is good for them; and he will not draw back any good things he has bestowed on them, his gifts are without repentance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Lord God is a sun - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “For the Lord loveth mercy and truth.” Our translation, however, is the correct one. The sun gives light, warmth, beauty, to the creation; so God is the source of light, joy, happiness, to the soul. Compare Isaiah 60:19; Revelation 21:23; Revelation 22:5.

And shield - See Psalms 84:9.

The Lord will give grace and glory - Grace, or favor, here; glory, or honor, in the world to come. He will bestow all needful favor on his people in this life; he will admit them to glory in the world to come. Grace and glory are connected. The bestowment of the one will be followed by the other. Romans 8:29-30. He that partakes of the grace of God on earth will partake of glory in heaven. Grace comes before glory; glory always follows where grace is given.

No good thing will he withhold ... - Nothing really good; nothing that man really needs; nothing pertaining to this life, nothing necessary to prepare for the life to come. Compare 1 Timothy 4:8; Philippians 4:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 84:11. For the Lord God is a sun and shield — To illuminate, invigorate, and warm; to protect and defend all such as prefer him and his worship to every thing the earth can produce.

It is remarkable that not one of the Versions understand the שמש shemesh, as signifying sun, as we do. They generally concur in the following translation: "For the Lord loveth mercy and truth, and he will give grace and glory." The Chaldee says, "The Lord is as a high wall and a strong shield; grace and glory will the Lord give, and will not deprive those of blessedness who walk in perfection." Critics in general take the word as signifying a defence or a guard. Instead of שמש shemesh, sun, Houbigant reads שמר shemer, a keeper or guardian, and says that to represent God as the sun is without example in the sacred writings. But is not Malachi 4:2, a parallel passage to this place? "Unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings." No MS. countenances the alteration of Houbigant.

The Lord will give grace — To pardon, purify, and save the soul from sin: and then he will give glory to the sanctified in his eternal kingdom; and even here he withholds no good thing from them that walk uprightly. Well, therefore, might the psalmist say, Psalms 84:12, "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee."

ANALYSIS OF THE EIGHTY-FOURTH PSALM

This Psalm may be divided into the following parts: -

I. The psalmist, absent from the public worship of God, shows his love to the house of God, and his desire to be present in it, Psalms 84:1-3.

II. The happiness of those who continue in that assembly, Psalms 84:4-7.

III. He prays for restoration to it, and sets down the causes, Psalms 84:8-11.

IV. The blessedness of the man who trusts in God, Psalms 84:12.

I. 1. He begins with the pathetical exclamation, "How amiable are thy tabernacles!" A mode of expression which intimates there is none equal to them.

2. He expresses his ardent affection to the house of God: - 1. "My soul longeth," c. 2. "My heart and flesh cry out," c.

3. He laments his absence from God's house. The sparrows and swallows have their respective houses, where they may be present, build, hatch their young, &c., but he could have no access to God's house. And this he expresses in an affecting appeal to God to move his pity: - 1. "O Lord of hosts!" I acknowledge thee as my Leader. 2. "My King." I acknowledge myself as thy subject. 3. "My God." Whom I serve, and have taken for my portion.

II. The happiness of those who have liberty to worship God in his temple.

1. "Blessed are they." They enjoy thy ordinances, and have blessings in all.

2. "Who dwell:" Who continue in union with God, ever prizing his ordinances.

3. "They will be still praising thee:" As being continually happy in thy presence.

"Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee:" Who knows his own weakness, and depends upon thee for his continual support.

This is the happiness of those who are near God's house: but there is a happiness for those also whose hearts are there, though their bodies are detained at a distance from it.

1. Blessed are they in whose hearts are the ways of them, Psalms 84:5.

2. Even when they are passing through desert and inhospitable countries, Psalms 84:6.

3. "They go from strength to strength:" 1. They get from one place of protection to another. 2. They increase in the Divine light and life. 3. They get many companions on the way.

III. His prayer. 1. He begs to be heard. 2. He remembers God, who succoured Jacob in weakness and distress. 3. He considers himself as the anointed of God, and under his especial care, Psalms 84:8. He wishes to be employed, even in the meanest offices, in the house of God, which he illustrates by an opposition of time, place, and persons.

1. Time. One day in thy courts is better than a thousand out of it.

2. Place. God's house, to the tents of wickedness.

3. Persons. A doorkeeper, a Korahite at the temple, rather than an emperor in his palace.

For this he gives five reasons: -

1. "The Lord is a sun:" He dispels darkness, comforts warms, gives life.

2. He is a shield: The Defender and Protector of his followers.

3. He gives grace, to prepare for heaven.

4. Glory, to crown that grace.

5. He is all-sufficient. "He will withhold no good thing."

But sinners and hypocrites need not expect these blessings they are for them that walk uprightly.

1. They must walk - go on, be constant, abide in the way.

2. They must be upright - truly sincere and obedient.

IV. The blessedness of the man who trusts in God. "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee!" This acclamation may be intended to answer an objection: "If those be blessed who dwell in thy temple, then those must be wretched who are exiled from it." No, says the psalmist though there be many advantages enjoyed by those who can attend the ordinances of God, and some may attend them without profit; yet he who trusts in God can never be confounded. Faith in God will always be crowned; and, when absent through necessity, every place is a temple.

"Though fate command me to the farthest verge

Of the green earth----------------------

Yet God is ever present, ever felt,

In the wide waste as in the city full;

And where he vital breathes, there must be joy.