Psalms 84:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Psalms 84:2 —

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Isaiah 26:9
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Psalms 42:1-2
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. …
Psalms 63:1-2
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; …
Psalms 119:81
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

The psalmist here, being by force restrained from waiting upon God in public ordinances, by the want of them is brought under a more sensible conviction than ever of the worth of them. Observe, I. The wonderful beauty he saw in holy institutions (Ps. 84:1): How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! Some think that he here calls God the Lord of hosts (that is, in a special manner of the ang…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. longeth--most intensely (Ge 31:30; Psa 17:12). fainteth--exhausted with desire. courts--as tabernacles (Psa 84:1)--the whole building. crieth out--literally, “sings for joy”; but here, and La 2:19, expresses an act of sorrow as the corresponding noun (Psa 17:1; 61:2). heart and ... flesh--as in Psa 63:1.