Psalm 84:1
New International Version
For the director of music. According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD Almighty!

New Living Translation
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

English Standard Version
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

Berean Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!

King James Bible
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

New King James Version
To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your tabernacle, O LORD of hosts!

New American Standard Bible
For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your dwelling places, LORD of armies!

NASB 1995
For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!

NASB 1977
How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!

Legacy Standard Bible
For the choir director. According to the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!

Amplified Bible
To the Chief Musician; set to a Philistine lute. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!

Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director: on the Gittith. † A psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD of Armies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director: on the Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, LORD of Hosts.

American Standard Version
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

Contemporary English Version
LORD God All-Powerful, your temple is so lovely!

English Revised Version
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[For the choir director; on the [gittith]; a psalm by Korah's descendants.] Your dwelling place is lovely, O LORD of Armies!

Good News Translation
How I love your Temple, LORD Almighty!

International Standard Version
How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Majority Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!

NET Bible
For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O LORD who rules over all!

New Heart English Bible
[For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.] How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of hosts.

Webster's Bible Translation
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

World English Bible
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. How beloved Your dwelling places, YHWH of Hosts!

Young's Literal Translation
To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' -- A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts!

Smith's Literal Translation
To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: to the sons of Korah, a chanting. How beloved are thy tents, O Jehovah of armies!
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of host!

Catholic Public Domain Version
Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah. How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

New American Bible
For the leader; “upon the gittith.” A psalm of the Korahites. [2] How lovely your dwelling, O LORD of hosts!

New Revised Standard Version
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
How beloved are your tabernacles, LORD JEHOVAH of hosts!
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Better is One Day in Your Courts
1For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts! 2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.…

Cross References
Psalm 27:4
One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.

Psalm 42:1-2
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. / My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Psalm 63:1-2
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. / So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Psalm 122:1
A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

1 Kings 8:27-30
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. / Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today. / May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. ...

2 Chronicles 6:18-21
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. / Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You. / May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. ...

Isaiah 56:7
I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”

Ezekiel 37:26-28
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever. / My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people. / Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”

Zechariah 8:3
This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”

Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

John 4:23-24
But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. / God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

John 14:2-3
In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? / And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

Acts 2:46-47
With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart, / praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? / If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.


Treasury of Scripture

How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

A.

Psalm 8:1
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Psalm 81:1
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

A Psalm.

how

Psalm 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Psalm 27:4
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 48:1,2
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness…

O Lord

Psalm 103:20,21
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word…

1 Kings 22:19
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Nehemiah 9:6
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

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Psalm 84
1. The prophet, longing for the communion of the sanctuary
4. Shows how blessed they are that dwell therein
8. He prays to be restored unto it.














How lovely
The Hebrew word used here is "יְדִידוֹת" (yedidot), which conveys a sense of belovedness and beauty. This word sets the tone for the entire Psalm, expressing a deep affection and admiration for the subject that follows. In the context of ancient Israel, the beauty of the temple was not just in its physical structure but in its representation of God's presence. The use of "lovely" here invites the reader to consider the spiritual beauty and desirability of being in communion with God, which transcends mere physical appearance.

is Your dwelling place
The phrase "מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶיךָ" (mishkenotecha) refers to the dwelling places or tabernacles of God. Historically, this would have been understood as the tabernacle in the wilderness or the temple in Jerusalem, both central to Israelite worship. Theologically, it signifies the presence of God among His people. In a broader sense, it points to the ultimate dwelling place of God with humanity, as seen in the New Testament with the coming of Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This phrase encourages believers to yearn for the presence of God in their lives, recognizing that His presence is the true source of beauty and fulfillment.

O LORD of Hosts
The term "יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת" (YHWH Tseva'ot) is a powerful title for God, emphasizing His sovereignty and command over the heavenly armies. This title reassures believers of God's supreme authority and His ability to protect and provide for His people. In the historical context, it would remind the Israelites of God's past deliverances and His ongoing protection. For contemporary believers, it serves as a reminder of God's omnipotence and His active role in the spiritual battles of life. This phrase calls the faithful to trust in God's power and to find peace in His sovereign rule.

(1) How amiable.--Better, How loved and how lovable. The Hebrew word combines both senses.

Tabernacles.--Better, perhaps, dwellings. (Comp. Psalm 43:3.) The plural is used poetically, therefore we need not think of the various courts of the Temple.

Verse 1. - How amiable are thy tabernacles! or, "how lovely are thy dwellings!!" The plural is used, as in Psalm 43:3; Psalm 46:4 (also Korahite); and Psalms 132:7, either because the temple was made up of several compartments, or as a "plural of dignity." O Lord of hosts (comp. vers. 3, 8, 12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For the choirmaster.
לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ (lam·naṣ·ṣê·aḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5329: To glitter from afar, to be eminent, to be permanent

According to
עַֽל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Gittith.
הַגִּתִּ֑ית (hag·git·tîṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1665: A musical term of uncertain meaning

A Psalm
מִזְמֽוֹר׃ (miz·mō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4210: Instrumental music, a poem set to notes

of the sons
לִבְנֵי־ (liḇ·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Korah.
קֹ֥רַח (qō·raḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7141: Korah -- an Edomite name, also an Israelite name

How
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

lovely
יְּדִיד֥וֹת (yə·ḏî·ḏō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 3039: Beloved

is Your dwelling place,
מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶ֗יךָ (miš·kə·nō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle

O LORD
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

of Hosts.
צְבָאֽוֹת׃ (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign


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