Teks -- Psalms 84:5 (NET)

84:5 How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!

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Wesley: Psa 84:5 - Whose strength

Who trusteth in thee as his only strength.

Wesley: Psa 84:5 - Thy ways

Blessed are they whose hearts are set upon Zion and their journey is thither.

JFB: Psa 84:5

(Compare Psa 68:28).

JFB: Psa 84:5 - in whose heart . . . the ways

That is, who knows and loves the way to God's favor (Pro 16:17; Isa 40:3-4).

Clarke: Psa 84:5 - The man whose strength is in thee

The man whose strength is in thee -

"Who life and strength from thee derives

And by thee moves and in thee lives.

Clarke: Psa 84:5 - In whose heart are the ways of them

In whose heart are the ways of them - This is no sense. The original, however, is obscure: מסלות בלבבם mesilloth bilebabam , "the high ways are in their hearts;"that is, the roads winding to thy temple. Perhaps there is a reference here to the high roads leading to the cities of refuge. We wish to escape from the hands and dominion of these murderers, and the roads that lead to Jerusalem and the temple we think on with delight; our hearts are with them, we long to be traveiling on them.

Calvin: Psa 84:5 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee

5.Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee David again informs us, that the purpose for which he desired liberty of access to the sanctuary was, not merely to gratify his eyes with what was to be seen there, but to make progress in faith. To lean with the whole heart upon God, is to attain to no ordinary degree of advancement: and this cannot be attained by any man, unless all his pride is laid prostrate in the dust, and his heart truly humbled. In proposing to himself this way of seeking God, David’s object is to borrow from him by prayer the strength of which he feels himself to be destitute. The concluding clause of the verse, the ways are in their hearts, ⁴⁶⁴ is by some interpreted as meaning, That those are happy who walk in the way which God has appointed; for nothing is more injurious to a man than to trust in his own understanding. It is not improperly said of the law, “This is the way, walk ye in it,” Isa 30:21. Whenever then men turn aside, however little it may be, from the divine law, they go astray, and become entangled in perverse errors. But it is more appropriate to restrict the clause to the scope of the passage, and to understand it as implying, that those are happy whose highest ambition it is to have God as the guide of their life, and who therefore desire to draw near to him. God, as we have formerly observed, is not satisfied with mere outward ceremonies. What he desires is, to rule and keep in subjection to himself all whom he invites to his tabernacle. Whoever then has learned how great a blessedness it is to rely upon God, will put forth all the desires and faculties of his mind, that with all speed he may hasten to Him.

TSK: Psa 84:5 - strength // in whose

strength : Psa 28:7, Psa 28:8; Isa 45:24; Zec 10:12; 2Co 12:9; Phi 4:13

in whose : Psa 40:8, Psa 42:4, Psa 55:14; Isa 26:9; Jer 31:33, Jer 50:4, Jer 50:5; Mic 4:2

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Poole: Psa 84:5 - Whose strength is in thee // In whose heart are the ways of them // in whose heart are thy // ways

Whose strength is in thee who trusteth in thee as his only strength, and refuge, and portion. Or, who hath strength in (or rather for , as the Hebrew prefix beth is frequently used, as hath been noted again and again) thee , i.e. who hath (or who useth; for having is sometimes put for using ; of which see Mat 13:12 1Co 7:2 ) ability of body and mind for thee, and for thy service; or for that journey which here he seems to insinuate, and in the following words and verses he particularly describes. For it must be considered that all the males of Israel were obliged to come to the tabernacle or temple thrice in a year, Exo 34:23,24 , and that some of them lived at a great distance, and consequently were to take a long and troublesome journey, which also might at some times and places be accompanied with hazards and other inconveniences; and therefore such as wanted either courage or bodily strength might be discouraged or hindered from undertaking it, and from the enjoyment of God in his solemn and public worship; which though in some cases it might not be their sin, yet surely it was a great affliction and infelicity; and consequently it was a blessed thing to be freed from those impediments, as the psalmist here observes.

In whose heart are the ways of them i.e. of these men; for though man be thee singular number, it is understood collectively of all that sort or company of men. But these words, of them , are not in the Hebrew, and, as some learned men have observed, seem to disturb or darken the sense. Others therefore seem to render the words better and more agreeably to the Hebrew text,

in whose heart are thy (which pronoun is oft understood)

ways to wit, those ways which lead to thy house; or, the ways , so called emphatically, or by way of eminency, the ways of (or, to ) Zion , as they are called Lam 1:4 , as is evident from Psa 84:7 . So the meaning is, Blessed are they whose thoughts and affections are much and strongly fixed upon the highways, and their journeys to Zion, who have both strength of body, as is said in the former branch, and readiness of heart, as is here added, to go to Zion; which are the two qualifications requisite for their journey. Blessed are they whose hearts are set upon Zion and their journeys thither; that are continually, or from time to time, stirring up and bespeaking themselves and others, as they did, Jer 31:6 , Arise ye, let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God . As when a man’ s heart is knit in true friendship to one that lives at some distance from him, he is oft thinking with great desire and delight of the place where he dwelleth, and of the way leading to it.

Haydock: Psa 84:5 - Convert // Our Saviour

Convert. Bring back the remnant of thy people, dispersed through the world. Only a few returned under Cyrus; the rest came back by degrees principally during the reigns of Hystaspes and Alexander the Great. (Calmet, Diss.) ---

While we continue unconverted, we are objects of God's wrath. (Berthier) (Lamentations v. 21.) ---

Our Saviour. Septuagint, "of our salvations." St. Jerome, "our Jesus." (Haydock) ---

Saviour of mankind, mitigate thy wrath against us. (Worthington)

Gill: Psa 84:5 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee // in whose heart are the ways of them

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, Or, "for thee", as some choose to render the words; who have bodily strength from the Lord, for his worship and service, to go up to his house, and serve him: this, with what follows in the two next verses, seem to refer to the males in Israel going up from different parts of the land to Jerusalem to worship, who had strength so to do; when the women and children, for want thereof, stayed at home, which was their infelicity, as it was the happiness of the males that they had ability for such a journey and service: the Targum is,

"whose strength is in thy Word;''

the essential Word, the Messiah, who have spiritual strength in and from him; see Isa 45:24, without this there is no heart to go up to the house of God; and this will carry through a great deal of bodily weakness; and by it saints overcome the temptations of Satan to the contrary, and perform the several duties of religion:

in whose heart are the ways of them; or "thy ways" ^x; the ways of God, the ways of Zion, the ways to the house of God; who have these ways at heart, who ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherwards; who have not only ability, but inclination and readiness of mind, to walk in them; whose hearts are bent upon them, regarding no objection, difficulty, and discouragement; who stir up themselves and others to go up to the house of God, and are heartily desirous of being taught his ways, and walking in them, and take great pleasure and delight therein; they are ways of pleasantness and paths of peace to them; the word properly signifies "highways" ^y, ways cast up. Some render it "ascensions in his heart" ^z; the affections of whose heart go up to God, like pillars of smoke perfumed with frankincense, are after God, his ways and worship, and are set on things above.