诗篇 84:7

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們行走，力上加力，直到各人在錫安朝見　神。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 行 走 ， 力 上 加 力 ， 各 人 到 锡 安 朝 见 　 神 。

Contextual Overview

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For the director of music. On the gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

Lord All-Powerful, how lovely is your Temple! ² I want more than anything to be in the courtyards of the Lord 's Temple. My whole being wants to be with the living God. ³ The sparrows have found a home, and the swallows have nests. They raise their young near your altars, Lord All-Powerful, my King and my God. ⁴ Happy are the people who live at your Temple; they are always praising you. Selah ⁵ Happy are those whose strength comes from you, who want to travel to Jerusalem. ⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it like a spring. The autumn rains fill it with pools of water. ⁷ The people get stronger as they go, and everyone meets with God in Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They: Job 17:9, Proverbs 4:18, Isaiah 40:31, John 15:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Peter 3:18

strength to strength: Heb. company to company, Luke 2:24

in Zion: Psalms 43:3, Deuteronomy 16:16, Isaiah 46:13, Jeremiah 31:6, Zechariah 14:16, John 6:39, John 14:3, 1 Thessalonians 4:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:10 - two bands Exodus 23:17 - General Exodus 34:23 - Thrice Deuteronomy 31:11 - to appear 2 Samuel 3:1 - David waxed 2 Chronicles 30:13 - there assembled Psalms 29:11 - give Psalms 122:2 - General Proverbs 10:29 - way Proverbs 24:5 - increaseth strength Isaiah 35:10 - and come Jeremiah 50:5 - ask Ezekiel 46:9 - come before Hosea 14:9 - and the Acts 9:22 - increased Romans 3:3 - faith 2 Thessalonians 1:3 - your

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They go from strength to strength,.... Whose strength is in the Lord, and in whose heart are his ways, and who pass through the valley of Baca, and find a well of supply, and pools of blessings there; they renew their spiritual strength; they grow stronger and stronger every step they take; the way of the Lord is strength unto them: or "from army to army", or "from company to company" d, as Kimchi, alluding to the companies in which they went up to the feasts; see Luke 2:44 when those who were more zealous, or more able to undergo journeys, would outgo the rest, and first overtake one company, and then another, and get to Zion first: or from victory to victory: first overcoming one enemy, and then another, as sin, Satan, and the world, being more than conquerors through him that has loved them: or "from doctrine to doctrine" e; being led first into one truth, and then into another, as they were able to bear them; and so following on to know the Lord, and increasing in the knowledge of him: or "from class to class" f; from the lower to an higher form in the school of Christ; so Jarchi interprets it, from school to school; and the Targum, from the sanctuary to the school; compare with this Romans 1:17

everyone of them in Zion appeareth before God; three times in the year, but not empty, Exodus 34:20 so the saints appear before God in his church below, presenting their persons, souls and bodies, prayers and praises, as holy and spiritual sacrifices unto him; than which nothing is more desirable to them. This is the wished for happiness, and the issue of their travel, toil, and labour; see

Psalms 42:2, and they shall appear before him, and in his presence, in the, church above; when Christ shall appear, they shall appear with him in glory, and be like him, and see him as he is; even everyone of them, not one shall be wanting; because he is great in power, not one of them shall fail; and he will present them to his Father, saying,

lo, I and the children thou hast given me: some render the words, "the God of gods will appear", or "be seen in Zion" g; there Jehovah manifests himself, and grants his gracious presence; this is the mount of the Lord, in which he is and shall be seen, Genesis 22:14.

d מחיל אל חיל "de exercitu in exercitum", Pagninus; so Piscator, Junius Tremellius "de turma ad turmam": Vatablus, Cocceius. e "De doctrina ad doctrinam", so some in Vatablus. f "Ex cohorte, vel classe rudiorum et infirmiorum, ad classem adultiorum", Gussetius, p. 725. g יראה אל אלהים בציון "videbitur Deus deorum in Sijon", Pagninus Montanus; "videtur Deus deorum in Sion", Musculus; so Sept. and Eth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They go from strength to strength ... - Margin,” company to company.” The Septuagint and Vulgate, “They go from strength to strength; the God of gods is seen in Zion.” Luther, “They obtain one victory after another, that one must see that there is a righteous God in Zion.” DeWette, “Going they increase in strength, until they appear before God in Zion.” This last is doubtless the true idea. As they pass along, as they come nearer and nearer to the end of their journey, their strength, their ardor, their firmness of purpose increases. By their conversation; by their songs; by encouraging one another; by seeing one difficulty overcome after another; by the fact kept before their minds, and increasingly apparent, that they are constantly approaching the end of their journey - that the distance to be traveled is constantly diminishing - that the difficulties become less and less, and that they will soon see the towers and walls of the desired city - they are invigorated, cheered, comforted. What a beautiful illustration of the life of Christian pilgrims - of the bands of the redeemed - as they journey on toward the end of their course - the Mount Zion above! By prayer and praise and mutual counsel, by their songs, by the fact that difficulties are surmounted, leaving fewer to be overcome, and that the journey to be traveled is diminishing constantly - by the feeling that they are ever drawing nearer to the Zion of their home, until the light is seen to glitter and play on its towers and walls - they increase in strength, they become more confirmed in their purposes, they bear trials better, they overcome difficulties more easily, they walk more firmly, they tread their way more cheerfully and triumphantly.

Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God - literally, “He shall appear to God in Zion.” The meaning evidently is, that they who are referred to in the previous verses as going up to Zion will be seen there, or will come before God, in the place of worship. There is a change of number here, from the plural to the singular - as, in Psalms 84:5, there is a change from the singular to the plural. Such changes are frequent in the Scriptures as in other writings, and the one here can be accounted for on the supposition that the author of the psalm, in looking upon the moving procession, at one moment may be supposed to have looked upon them as a procession - a moving mass - and then that he looked upon them as individuals, and spake of them as such. The idea here is, that they would not falter and fall by the way; that the cheerful, joyous procession would come to the desired place; that their wishes would be gratified, and that their joy would be full when they came to the end of their journey - to Zion. So it is of all Christian pilgrims. Every true believer - everyone that truly loves God - will appear before him in the upper Zion - in heaven. There their joy will be complete; there the long-cherished desires of their hearts will be fully gratified; there all that they ever hoped for, and more, will be realized.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 84:7. They go from strength to strength — They proceed from one degree of grace to another, gaining Divine virtue through all the steps of their probation.

Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. — This is a paraphrase, and a bad one, but no translation. They shall proceed from strength to strength, יראה אל אלהים בציון yeraeh el Elohim betsiyon, "The God of gods shall be seen in Zion." God shall appear in their behalf, as often as they shall seek him; in consequence of which they shall increase in spiritual strength.

Some think there is a reference here to companies of people going up to Jerusalem from different parts of the land, blending together as they go on, so that the crowd is continually increasing. This meaning our translators have put in the margin.