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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 84 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Of "gittith", [See comments on Psalms 8:1]. The Targum renders it here, as there, "to praise upon the harp that was brought from Gath;'' and of the sons of Korah, [See comments on Psalms 42:1] and the argument of this psalm is thought to be much the same with that and Psalms 43:1. It was, very probably,...
John Gill
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...
Matthew Henry
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...
Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: Those children of God, who have been for even a little while exiled from the court of the Lord, prize them all the more when they get back to them. Psa_84:2. My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. There gets to be so deep a longing to appear once more in the house of the Lord that even this clay-cold flesh of ours,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Perhaps the psalmist would never have said, “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!” if he had not been detained from them so long that he could truly say, “My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord.”...
Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. A little starving brings on an appetite for health-giving food, and a brief absence from the house of God, through sickness, or by reason of distance, makes a Christian sigh and cry for the dainties of the divine table. Even the heavy flesh, which is so slow to move, at last joins...
Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. His soul longed until, as it were, it grew pale, — for so the Hebrew may be rendered, — it grew white with faintness in the intensity of his desire to get up to the courts where God was to be found. God is a King, his ancient tabernacle was one of his royal palaces, so David longed...