Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 8. Hear my prayer ] Let us be restored to thy sanctuary, and to thy worship.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-12 - In all our addresses to God, we must desire that he would look of 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 plead love to God's ordinances. Let us account one day in God's courts bette 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 enlighte 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 fl thick about us. Through he has not promised to give riches an dignities, he has promised to give grace and glory to all that see 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 full enjoying him for ever? Let it be our care to walk uprightly, and the 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 _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew יהוה3068 אלהים430 צבאות6635 שׁמעה8085 תפלתי8605 האזינה238 אלהי430 יעקב3290 סלה׃5542
