Psalms 84:8
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 84:8 in other translations
| BSB | O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah |
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| WEB | LORD, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah. |
| ASV | O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. [Selah |
| YLT | O Jehovah, God of Hosts, hear my prayer, Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. |
| DARBY | Jehovah,God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, OGod of Jacob. Selah. |
| BBE | O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.) |
| Webster | O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. |
What does Psalms 84:8 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 Hear my prayer - Let us be restored to thy sanctuary, and to thy worship.
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 84:8-12
In all our addresses to God, we must desire that he would look on Christ, his Anointed One, and accept us for his sake: we must look to Him with faith, and then God will with favour look upon the face of the Anointed: we, without him, dare not show our faces. The psalmist pleads love to God's ordinances. Let us account one day in God's courts better than a thousand spent elsewhere; and deem the meanest place in his service preferable to the highest earthly preferment. We are here in darkness, but if God be our God, he will be to us a Sun, to enlighten and enliven us, to guide and direct us. We are here in danger, but he will be to us a Shield, to secure us from the fiery darts that fly thick about us. Through he has not promised to give riches and dignities, he has promised to give grace and glory to all that seek them in his appointed way. And what is grace, but heaven begun below, in the knowledge, love, and service of God? What is glory, but the completion of this happiness, in being made like to him, and in fully enjoying him for ever? Let it be our care to walk uprightly, and then let us trust God to give us every thing that is good for us. If we cannot go to the house of the Lord, we may go by faith to the Lord of the house; in him we shall be happy, and may be easy. That man is really happy, whatever his outward circumstances may be, who trusts in the Lord of hosts, the God of Jacob.
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Psalms 84:8 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
- Psalms 84:8
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
- Psalms 84:9
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psalms 84:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová Dios de los ejércitos, oye mi oración: escucha, oh Dios de Jacob. (Selah.) |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils marchent de force en force, ils paraissent devant Dieu en Sion. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova, Gott der Heerscharen, höre mein Gebet; nimm zu Ohren, du Gott Jakobs! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ostende nobis, Domine, misericordiam tuam, et salutare tuum da nobis. |