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Psalms 84:2

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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

Psalms 84:2 — KJV

Theological / Devotional

My soul longeth. Such earnestness and fervency should characterize the Christian’s prayer.

Crieth out. Heb. ranan, generally, “to cry for joy” (see Ps. 98:4).

The living God. As distinguished from idols, which are dead (see Ps. 42:2), the only other place in the Psalter where the expression “living God” appears; cf. Joshua 3:10; Hosea 1:10. In the NT the expression “living God” occurs frequently (see Matt. 16:16; John 6:69; Acts 14:15; Rom. 9:26; 2 Cor. 3:3; Heb. 3:12; Rev. 7:2; etc.).

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