Mazmur 27:4
Konteks27:4 I have asked the Lord for one thing –
this is what I desire!
I want to live 1 in the Lord’s house 2 all the days of my life,
so I can gaze at the splendor 3 of the Lord
and contemplate in his temple.
Mazmur 84:10
Konteks84:10 Certainly 4 spending just one day in your temple courts is better
than spending a thousand elsewhere. 5
I would rather stand at the entrance 6 to the temple of my God
than live 7 in the tents of the wicked.
Mazmur 92:13
Konteks92:13 Planted in the Lord’s house,
they grow in the courts of our God.
[27:4] 2 sn The
[84:10] 5 tn Heb “better is a day in your courts than a thousand [spent elsewhere].”
[84:10] 6 tn Heb “I choose being at the entrance of the house of my God over living in the tents of the wicked.” The verb סָפַף (safaf) appears only here in the OT; it is derived from the noun סַף (saf, “threshold”). Traditionally some have interpreted this as a reference to being a doorkeeper at the temple, though some understand it to mean “lie as a beggar at the entrance to the temple” (see HALOT 765 s.v. ספף).
[84:10] 7 tn The verb דּוּר (dur, “to live”) occurs only here in the OT.