Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Our feet are standing Within thy gates, O Jerusalem,
Our feet have been standing in thy gates, O Jerusalem!
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Voices5
These are the feet that David washes in spirit when he teaches you how to keep them unsoiled, saying, "Our feet have been standing in your courts, O Jerusalem." Certainly, here "feet" is to be understood not as of the body but as of the soul. For how could a person on earth have his physical feet in heaven?
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 2. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem; or, better, "our feet are standing." The words imply present and joyous standing within the walls of the city of peace; or perhaps the pilgrims felt so sure of getting there that they antedated the joy, and spoke as if they were already there, though they were as yet only on the road. If we are within the church we may well triumph in the fact. While our feet are standing in Jerusalem our lips may well be singing.
Note, (1.) It is the will of God that we should worship him in concert, that many should join together to wait upon him in public ordinances. We ought to worship God in our own houses, but that is not enough; we must go into the house of the Lord, to pay our homage to him there, and not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Though the city was divided into the higher and lower town, yet the Jebusites being driven out, and it being entirely in the possession of God's people, it is said to be compact together. It was a type of the gospel-church, which is compact together in holy love and Christian communion, so that it is all as one city.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches5
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
He has founded His city on the holy mountains.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 100:4Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
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Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to…
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.
I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
Through
Exodus 20:24You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name…
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Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
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