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Psalms 84:2

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

KJV

Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam ; avertisti captivitatem Jacob.

Vulgate

Εὐδόκησας, Κύριε, τὴν γῆν σου, ἀπέστρεψας τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν Ἰακώβ·

LXX

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

ASV

מַה יְּדִיד֥וֹת מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶ֗י/ךָ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

י
y
noun · 9×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
מִּשְׁכָּ֖ן
mshkn
noun · 138×
צְבָא֖וֹת
tsb'vt
noun · 480×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1770Moral perfection consists in man's being moved to the good not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of the psalm: "My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God."46
Chapter 25.—That All the Saints, Both Under the Law and Before It, Were Justified by Faith in the Mystery of Christ’s Incarnation. It was by faith in this mystery, and godliness of life, that purification was attainable even by the saints of old, whether before the law was given to the Hebrews (for God and the angels were even then present as instructors), or in the periods und…

Cross-references

  • 1Tim 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
  • 2Cor 3:3 — Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the h
  • Heb 12:22 — But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 58:13 — If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, n
  • Isa 64:1 — Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
  • Jer 10:10 — But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
  • Job 23:3 — Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
  • Matt 5:6 — Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
  • Phil 3:12 — Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 42:1 — As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
  • Ps 42:2 — My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
  • Ps 63:1 — 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;
  • Ps 63:1 — 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;
  • Ps 63:2 — To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
  • Ps 73:26 — My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
  • Ps 73:26 — My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
  • Ps 119:20 — My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
  • Ps 119:20 — My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
  • Ps 119:81 — My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
  • Ps 119:81 — My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
  • Ps 143:6 — I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
  • Ps 143:6 — I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
  • Song 2:4 — He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
  • Song 5:8 — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
  • Song 8:6 — Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.