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Psalms 84:2

I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the Lord . With my whole being, body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Affections;   Church;   Desire;   Heart;   Seekers;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desire;   Desire-Satisfaction;   House of God;   Hunger;   Living God;   Love;   Love-Hatred;   Spiritual;   Worship;   Worship, True and False;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Access to God;   Affections, the;   Heart, Character of the Renewed;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gittith;   Korah;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Flesh;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Love to God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tent;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Flesh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Korah, Korahites;   Music and Musical Instruments;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Psychology;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gittith;   Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gittith;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Court;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Court of the Sanctuary;   Cry, Crying;   Faint;   Korahites;   Lively;   Music;   Prayer;   Psalms, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 13;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
My soul has longed and even fainted for the courts of Yahweh;My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord ; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My soule hath a desire and a longing to enter into the courtes of God: my heart and my flesh leapeth with ioy for to go to the liuing Lorde.
Darby Translation
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
New King James Version
My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Literal Translation
My soul longs and even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , I cannot wait to enter your Temple. I am so excited! Every part of me cries out to be with the Living God.
World English Bible
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
King James Version (1611)
My soule longeth, yea euen fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the liuing God.
King James Version
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My soule hath a desyre & loginge for ye courte of ye LORDE, my hert & my flesh reioyse in ye lyuynge God.
Amplified Bible
My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
American Standard Version
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
Bible in Basic English
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
Update Bible Version
My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of Yahweh; My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.
Webster's Bible Translation
My soul longeth, and even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
New English Translation
I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord 's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
Contemporary English Version
Deep in my heart I long for your temple, and with all that I am I sing joyful songs to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
How deeply loved are your dwelling-places, Adonai -Tzva'ot!
Geneva Bible (1587)
My soule longeth, yea, and fainteth for the courtes of the Lord: for mine heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God.
George Lamsa Translation
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh give praise for the living God.
Hebrew Names Version
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
New Life Bible
My soul wants and even becomes weak from wanting to be in the house of the Lord. My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou hast forgiven thy people their transgressions; thou has covered all their sins. Pause.
English Revised Version
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
Berean Standard Bible
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
New Revised Standard
My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My soul, longeth - yea even languisheth - for the courts of Yahweh, - My heart and my flesh, shout aloud for a Living GOD.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(83-3) my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.
Lexham English Bible
My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
English Standard Version
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
New American Standard Bible
My soul longed and even yearned for the courtyards of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
New Century Version
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.
Good News Translation
How I want to be there! I long to be in the Lord 's Temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
Christian Standard Bible®
I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
my soule coueitith, and failith in to the porchis of the Lord. Myn herte and my fleische; ful out ioyeden in to quyk God.
Young's Literal Translation
My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
Revised Standard Version
My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Contextual Overview

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For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Heaven's Armies. 2 I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the Lord . With my whole being, body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God. 3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young at a place near your altar, O Lord of Heaven's Armies, my King and my God! 4 What joy for those who can live in your house, always singing your praises. Interlude 5 What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord , who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 6 When they walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a place of refreshing springs. The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings. 7 They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

soul: Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 63:2, Psalms 73:26, Psalms 119:20, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 143:6, Song of Solomon 2:4, Song of Solomon 2:5, Song of Solomon 5:8

heart: Job 23:3, Isaiah 26:9, Isaiah 64:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:4 - Unto Genesis 34:8 - The soul Exodus 38:9 - the court Deuteronomy 5:26 - living Deuteronomy 12:20 - I will 2 Samuel 13:39 - longed Psalms 26:8 - Lord Psalms 84:10 - For Psalms 122:1 - was glad Psalms 122:9 - the house Psalms 137:5 - I forget Song of Solomon 8:6 - love Isaiah 26:8 - desire Isaiah 38:22 - What Isaiah 58:13 - call Jeremiah 10:10 - the living Zephaniah 3:18 - sorrowful Matthew 5:6 - are 2 Corinthians 3:3 - the living Philippians 3:12 - I follow 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - the living 1 Timothy 3:15 - the living Hebrews 12:22 - of the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord,.... The courts of the tabernacle now at Gibeon, though the ark was in Zion, 2 Chronicles 1:3 as the court of the priests, and the court of the Israelites, in which latter the people in common stood: after these David longed; he longed to enter into them, and stand in them, and worship God there; which soul longings and hearty desires were the fruits and evidences of true grace, of being born again; so newly born souls desire the sincere milk of the word, and the breasts of Gospel ordinances, as a newly born babe desires its mother's milk and breast; and he even "fainted", through disappointment, or length of time, being impatient of the returning season and opportunity of treading in them; see

Psalms 42:1,

my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God; he only inwardly desired, and secretly fainted, but audibly cried out in his distress, and verbally expressed, great vehemence, his desire to enjoy the living God: it was not merely the courts, but God in them, that he wanted; even that God which has life in himself, with whom is the fountain of life; who gives life to others, natural, spiritual, and eternal, and in whose favour is life; yea, whose lovingkindness is better than life, and which was the thing longed and thirsted after: and these desires were the desires of the whole man, soul and body; not only he cried with his mouth and lips, signified by his flesh, but with his heart also, sincerely and heartily; his heart went along with his mouth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My soul longeth - The word used here means properly to be pale; then, to be faint or weak; and then, to pine after, to long for, to desire earnestly. It would properly denote such a longing or desire as to make one faint or exhausted; that is, it indicates intense desire. In Psalms 17:12, it is applied to a hungry lion; “Like a lion that is greedy of its prey.” In Genesis 31:30, it conveys the idea of intense desire: “Because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house.” For an illustration of the sentiment here expressed, see the notes at Psalms 42:1-2.

Yea, even fainteth - Is exhausted; fails of its strength. The word means properly to be completed, finished; then to be consumed, to be spent, to waste or pine away. Genesis 21:15; Jeremiah 16:4; Lamentations 2:11; Job 19:27.

For the courts of the Lord - The word used here refers to the different areas around the tabernacle or temple, within which many of the services of public worship were conducted, and which were frequented by different classes of persons. See the notes at Matthew 21:12.

My heart and my flesh - My whole nature; my body and my soul; all my desires and aspirations - all the longings of my heart are there. The body - the flesh - cries out for rest; the heart - the soul - for communion with God. Our whole nature demands the benefits which spring from the worship of God. Body and soul were made for his service, and the necessities of neither can be satisfied without religion.

Crieth out - The word used here - רנן rânan - means properly to give forth a tremulous sound; then, to give forth the voice in vibrations, or in a tremulous manner; and thence it may mean either to utter cries of joy, Leviticus 9:24; Job 38:7; Isaiah 12:6, or to utter a loud wail Lamentations 2:19. Its common application is to joy Psalms 98:4; Psalms 132:16; Psalms 65:8; and it might be rendered here, “Sing unto the Lord,” or “Rejoice unto the Lord.” The connection, however, seems to demand that it be understood as the cry of earnest longing or desire.

For the living God - God, the true God, considered as living, in contradistinction from idols, always spoken of as dead. Compare Psalms 63:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 84:2. My soul longeth — It is a Levite that speaks, who ardently longs to regain his place in the temple, and his part in the sacred services.

My heart and my flesh — All the desires of my soul and body; every appetite and wish, both animal and spiritual, long for thy service.


 
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