Psalm 84 - Overcomer - How lovely are Your dwellings

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Spurgeon called this the Pearl of Psalms.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n1_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v1</A> - See <A HREF="psalm_8_n1_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 8 Overcomer O Lord, our Lord how">Psalm 8, v1</A> for comments about "upon the winepresses"</div> <div> See <A HREF="psalm_42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 42 overcomer My soul does thirst">Psalm 42</A> for comments about the sons of Korah.</div> <bR> <div> "Dwelllings" plural signifies local churches.</div> <div> A church is the people in the church. It should be lovely because of the lives of the members.</div> <bR> <div> This short psalm mentions "LORD of hosts" 4 times. "hosts" means "armies". This shows that to have a lovely church as described in this psalm requires spiritual warfare.</div> <bR> <div> Mark how he repeats the blessed name of Jehovah of Hosts; he found in it a sweetness which helped him to bear his inward hunger. - Spurgeon</div> <div> He does not tell us how lovely they were, because he could not. His expressions show us that his feelings were inexpressible. Lovely to the memory, to the mind, to the heart, to the eye, to the whole soul, are the assemblies of the saints. Earth contains no sight so refreshing to us as the gathering of believers for worship. Those are sorry saints who see nothing amiable in the services of the Lord's house. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v2</A> -The living God is the God who answers prayer and speaks to us through His word. The church should be the house of this living God (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#1tim3_15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">1Tim 3:15</A>).</div> <bR> <div> The 1st 1/2 of this verse is past and suffering. The second half is the present and joyful. </div> <bR> <div> This verse contains the 1st of 3 "also"'s in this psalm. My soul longed and it also pined for the courts of the LORD. Not only did my soul long, but it also suffered, wasting away.</div> <div> The 2nd "also" is in the next verse: Not only do my heart and flesh sing out joyfully for the living God, but also the lowly sparrow (me) has found a home here.</div> <div> The 3rd "also" is in v6: Not only does the overcomer transform the weeping valley into springing wells, but also the early rain (from God) covers it with pools of blessings.</div> <bR> <div> Some need to be whipped to church, while here is David crying for it. He needed no clatter of bells from the belfry to ring him in, he carried his bell in his own bosom: holy appetite is a better call to worship than a full chime. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="n3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v3</A> - I think the psalmist considers himself and his family here as the lowly sparrow and free swallow (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#sparrow" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">Matt 10:29-31;etc</A>).</div> <bR> <div> We all need the church of the living God that a poor outcast can call a home, and a free swallow can settle down in and consecrate his children to the Lord, both biological and spiritual children.</div> <bR> <div> The Hebrew word that I translated as "free bird" is usually translated "swallow". The word means "free". The Orthodox Jewish Stone Tanach translates it as "free bird".</div> <bR> <div> my King and my God - The double "my" is very precious; he lays hold upon his God with both his hands, as one resolved not to let him go till the favour requested be at length accorded. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v4</A><A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">-</A> Most translate the Hebrew word <I>oad </I>as "continually", but it literally means "again". "Again" means that they had been praising the Lord, then stopped and will again praise the Lord. This agrees with v2, where the psalmist's soul longed and also pined for the house of God, but now sings aloud for joy for the living God, and this also agrees with the verses that follow. It is important to stay dwelling in the Lord's house in the adverse times even if the adversity makes us unable to attend the church meetings for a while.</div> <bR> <div> We fear David here drew rather a picture of what should be than of what is; for those occupied daily with the offices needful for public worship are not always among the most devout; on the contrary, "the nearer the church the further from God." Yet in a spiritual sense this is most true, for those children of God who in spirit abide even in his house, are also ever full of the praises of God. Communion is the mother of adoration. They fail to praise the Lord who wander far from him, but those who dwell in him are always magnifying him.</div> <div>     "Selah." In such an occupation as this we might be content to remain for ever. It is worth while to pause and meditate upon the prospect of dwelling with God and praising him throughout eternity. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n5_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#5_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v5</A> -  The Hebrew word for "highways" also means "stairs" (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#stairs" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">2Chr 9:11</A>). </div> <bR> <div> Some translations add the words "to Zion" after "highways", but "to Zion" is not in the text. </div> <bR> <div> A highway in our hearts is a way in our hearts to bring others to the Lord and to the church and to help them grow in the Lord. A church needs to have people like this in it and those in the church should be becoming such. (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#hwy" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">Prov 16:17; etc</A>)</div> <bR> <div> Those who love the ways of God are blessed. When we have God's ways in our hearts, and our heart in his ways, we are what and where we should be, and hence we shall enjoy the divine approval. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="n6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v6</A><A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"> </A>- "weeping" (Hebrew <I>bacah</I>)<I> </I>is from LXX. MT says "mulberry tree" (Hebrew <I>baca</I>), which does not make sense. The Orthodox Jewish Stone Tanach translates the word as "thorns", but I can't find a basis for that. This verse is not preserved in the DSS.</div> <bR> <div> Passing through the valley of weeping goes along with the the psalmist longing for and also pining for the house of God in v2, and the "again praising Thee" in v4. </div> <bR> <div> Those who have highways in their heart transform the place of suffering which they pass through into springing wells. When you are passing through the valley of weeping, the springing wells are not wells of joy (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#heb12_11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">Heb 12:11</A>), but of selflessness and seeing God's loving hand. The suffering becomes a pruning so that you can bear more fruit (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#joh15_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">John 15:2</A>). Also God joins in and sends showers of blessings. God does not send the showers of blessings until we, in dependence on His help through the church, start transforming the weeping valley to springing wells.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v7 </A>- Each suffering we pass through in this way makes our faith stronger and bolder to appear before God. Once you have suffered such a great loss and survived, you no longer fear. What worse could happen to me? (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#gal6_17" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">Gal 6:17</A>)</div> <bR> <div> Not merely to be in the assembly, but to appear before God was the object of each devout Israelite. Would to God it were the sincere desire of all who in these days mingle in our religious gatherings. Unless we realise the presence of God we have done nothing; the mere gathering together is nothing worth. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="n8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v8-9</A> - The psalmist tells God to hear his prayer, and to look upon our Shield and the face of His Messiah so that God will be favorable to his prayer, but the psalm doesn't actually say what the prayer is. The prayer request is up to us to insert for our own situation and that of our church and the world.</div> <bR> <div> Our shield is the Messiah. We tell God to look upon His face, who took our punishment upon Himself.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v10</A> - The psalmist tells God to look upon His Mesiah's face because a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. Why would the thousand-fold superiority of time spent in the Lord's courts be reason for God to look upon His Messiah's face? It may be that we are not worthy to spend time in God's courts, so we pray for God to look at our Shield, His Messiah's face as covering for us to be in His holy presence.</div> <bR> <div> I get 1,000 times more inspiration in church than on my own. There is 1000 times more living God in the church (v2). If you skip church to have a time alone with the Lord, that will not work except in specific abnormal circumstances.You need a foundation of time with the Lord alone and in daily life in order to experience Him 1,000-fold in the church.To be blessed in the church, you also need to individually have your help in Him (v4).</div> <bR> <div> The lowest station in connection with the Lord's house is better than the highest position among the godless. ... Note how he calls the tabernacle the house of my God; there's where the sweetness lies: if Jehovah be our God, his house, his altars, his doorstep, all become precious to us.  - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="n11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v11</A> - This verse gives us the assurance to pray according to verses 8-9. In this verse the psalmist switches from talking to God to talking to us, his audience. </div> <bR> <div> In order for God to answer our prayers, we must walk in integrity. As soon as we are aware of anything not in integrity, we should make it right as soon as possible.</div> <bR> <div> "God" is literally "LORD God".</div> <bR> <div> A sun for happy days and a shield for dangerous ones. ...</div> <div> The Lord will give grace and glory. Both in due time, both as needed, both to the full, both with absolute certainty. ...</div> <div> No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Grace makes us walk uprightly and this secures every covenant blessing to us. What a wide promise! Some apparent good may be withheld, but no real good, no, not one.  "All things are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's." God has all good, there is no good apart from him, and there is no good which he either needs to keep back or will on any account refuse us, if we are but ready to receive it. We must be upright and neither lean to this or that form of evil: and this uprightness must be practical,—we must walk in truth and holiness, then shall we be heirs of all things, and as we come of age all things shall be in our actual possession; and meanwhile, according to our capacity for receiving shall be the measure of the divine bestowal. This is true, not of a favoured few, but of all the saints for evermore. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div>  "If He withholds aught on which you have set your heart, believe it is not really good; and still trust Him." - F. B. Meyer</div> <div>  <A NAME="n12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v12</A> - To be blessed we need to have our home in the church (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v4</A>) and have living trust in God (<A HREF="psalm_84_m.htm#5_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">v5</A>,12). This verse is not something new to the psalm, but a conclusion of the whole psalm.</div> <bR> <div> Here is the key of the Psalm. The worship is that of faith, and the blessedness is peculiar to believers. No formal worshipper can enter into this secret. A man must know the Lord by the life of real faith, or he can have no true rejoicing in the Lord's worship, his house, his Son, or his ways. Dear reader, how fares it with thy soul? - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> copyright 2016 voiceinwilderness.info</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 84 </B>For the <A HREF="psalms_overcomer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalms practical details of the Godman ">Overcomer</A> upon the winepresses. Through the sons of Korah, a Psalm<I> </I></div> <div> <A HREF="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/257" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/257"><I>tune #257 - Lord, may Thy Wind of Heaven Blow 8.6.8.6.D.</I></A></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-858/e0257LMayThyWindOfHeavenBlow8686D.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> audio file from <A HREF="http://www.hymnal.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hymnal.net">hymnal.net</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >1</FONT> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n1_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">1</A> How lovely are Your dwellings, <I>Lord</I>,</div> <div> <I>O Thou, </I>LORD <I>God </I>of hosts. <A NAME="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">2 </A> My soul longed, and it also pined</div> <div>  for the courts of Your <I>house</I>.</div> <div>      My heart and my flesh sing out for</div> <div>      the God who is living. <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">3</A>        Also the sparrow found a home,</div> <div>      and free bird is nesting</div> <div>  <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 2 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >where she may lay her young upon</FONT></div> <div> Your altars LORD of hosts,</div> <div> My King and God, <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">4</A>  how bless'd are they</div> <div> who dwell within Your house.</div> <div>      They will again be praising Thee,</div> <div>      Selah, <I>with hearts of praise</I>. <A NAME="5_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">5</A>         Bless'd is the man whose strength's in Thee.</div> <div>      In their heart are highways<I>.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >3 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">6</A>  Passing through the weeping valley,</div> <div> they make it a wellspring.</div> <div> Also the early rain covers</div> <div> it with pools of blessings.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">7</A>        They go onward from strength to strength.</div> <div>      'Fore God each will appear</div> <div>      in Zion, <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">8</A>  O LORD God of hosts,</div> <div>      hear my prayer. Do give ear.</div> <div>  <A NAME="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >4 </FONT>O God of Jacob, <I>Hear.</I> Selah. </div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">9</A>  Our Shield <I>n</I><I>ow </I><I>s</I>ee, O God, </div> <div> and look upon Your Messiah's</div> <div> face<I>, Who this way has trod,</I></div> <div>      <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">10</A> for a day within Your courts is</div> <div>      better than a thousand.</div> <div>      I would rather in my God's house</div> <div>      upon the threshold stand</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 5 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >then dwell in tents of wickedness</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">11</A> for God is Sun and Shield.</div> <div> Grace and glory the LORD will give.</div> <div> No good thing He'll not yield</div> <div>      to those who walk in uprightness.</div> <div>      <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n12" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your">12</A> LORD of hosts, bless'd is he</div> <div>   <I>   who lives You as his righteousness,</I></div> <div>      who puts his trust in Thee.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Post comment:</B></div> <div>  <form action="http://csbmail.globalscape.com/cgi-bin/csbmail/csbmail.pl" method="POST" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_SortOrder" value="name,email,city,state,comments"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_FormIndex" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="tlx_OKMessage" value="Thank you for your comment on Psalm 8. 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Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows. </div> <div>  <A NAME="stairs"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"><B>2 Chronicles 9:11</B></A> And the king made of the sandal-wood stairs for the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers. And there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.</div> <div>  <A NAME="hwy"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"><B>Proverbs 16:17</B></A> The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that taketh heed to his way keepeth his soul. </div> <div> Isaiah 40:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!</div> <div>  4 Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain. </div> <div> 49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.</div> <div>  12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of China.</div> <div>  13 Shout, ye heavens; and be joyful, thou earth; and break forth into singing, ye mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted ones.</div> <div> Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.</div> <div> Psalm 17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.</div> <div> Psalm 23:3 He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.</div> <div> Psalm 25:4 Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths. </div> <div> 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. </div> <div> Psalm 27:11 Teach me thy way, Jehovah, and lead me in an even path, because of mine enemies. </div> <div> Psalm 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path; </div> <div> Psalm 51:13 I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall return unto thee.</div> <div> Psalm 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness: </div> <div> Psalm 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!</div> <div> Psalm 95:10 Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; </div> <div> Psalm 103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. </div> <div> Psalm 119:5 Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!</div> <div> 9 BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his path? by taking heed according to thy word.</div> <div> 15 I will meditate upon thy precepts, and have respect unto thy paths.</div> <div> 26 I have declared my ways, and thou hast answered me: teach me thy statutes </div> <div> 35 Make me to walk in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.</div> <div> 59 I have thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies </div> <div> 101 I have refrained my feet from every evil path, that I might keep thy word.</div> <div> 104 From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path. </div> <div> 105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. </div> <div> 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies; for all my ways are before thee. </div> <div> Psalm 128:1 A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah, that walketh in his ways. </div> <div> Psalm 139:3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;</div> <div> Psalm 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then *thou* knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.</div> <div> Psalm 145:17 Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.</div> <div> Matthew 7:14 For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.</div> <div> Mark 1:1 Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;</div> <div>  2 as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.</div> <div>  3 Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. </div> <div> Luke 3:4 as it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.</div> <div>  5 Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall become a straight path, and the rough places smooth ways,</div> <div>  <A NAME="1tim3_15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"><B>1Timothy 3:15</B></A> but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. </div> <div>  <A NAME="gal6_17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"><B>Galatians 6:17</B></A> For the rest let no one trouble me, for *I* bear in my body the brands of the Lord Jesus. </div> <div>  <A NAME="joh15_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"><B>John 15:2  </B></A>Every branch in Me that bears not fruit He takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bring forth more fruit.</div> <div>  <A NAME="heb12_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_84_l.htm#n6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 84 Overcomer How lovely are Your"><B>Hebrews 12:11</B></A> But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it. </div> <bR> <div> copyright 2016 voiceinwilderness.info</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>