Psalms 116:19

In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
courts	בְּחַצְר֤וֹת be.chatz.Rot	H2691	a yard (as inclosed by a fence) · preposition + noun, common both genders plural construct
LORD’s	יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
house	בֵּ֤ית beit	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
midst	בְּֽת֘וֹכֵ֤כִי be.To.Khe.khi	H8432	a bisection · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
Jerusalem	יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗ם ye.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · proper noun, a place name
Praise	הַֽלְלוּ ha.lu-	H1984	to be clear (orig. of sound · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
LORD	יָֽהּ Yah	H3050	Jah · proper noun, a man's name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 96:8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
Psalms 135:2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,
2 Chronicles 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Psalms 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Psalms 118:19-20 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms 122:3-4 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:10–end

The Septuagint and some other ancient versions make these verses a distinct psalm separate from the former; and some have called it the Martyr's psalm, I suppose for the sake of Psa 116:15. Three things David here makes confession of: - I. His faith (Psa 116:10): I believed, therefore have I spoken. This is quoted by the apostle (Co2 4:13) with application to himself and his fellow-ministers, who, though they suffered for Christ, were not ashamed to own him. David believed the being, providence, and promise of God, particularly the assurance God had given him by Samuel that he should exchange his crook for a sceptre: a great deal of hardship he went through in the belief of this, and theref…

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John Gill on Psalms 116:19

In the courts of the Lord's house,.... This is added by way of explanation of Psalm 116:18, what he meant by "the presence of all his people"; the assembly of the saints met together in the house of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle, in the courts of it, where the people got together to worship God; in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem; the Lord's house or tabernacle; for as yet the temple was not built, and the courts of it were in the midst of the city of Jerusalem. And this shows, as some interpreters have observed, that this psalm must have been written after David came to the kingdom, and had got this city into his hands, whither he brought the ark of the Lord. The whole signifies t…

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John Calvin on Psalms 116:15–end

Psalm 116:15-19 15. Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death of his meek ones. 16. Come, O Jehovah! because I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thine handmaid: thou hast broken my fetters. 17. I will sacrifice the sacrifices of praise to thee, and call upon the name of Jehovah. [383] 18. I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people, 19. In the courts of the house of Jehovah, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem! Praise ye Jehovah. 15. Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death of his meek ones. He goes on now to the general doctrine of God's providential care for the godly, in that he renders them assistance in time of need; their lives being precious in his sight…

The Church Fathers

"In the courts," he saith, "of the Lord's house." What is the Lord's house, the same is the Lord's handmaid: and what is God's house, save all His people? It therefore followeth, "In the sight of all His people." And now he more openly nameth his mother herself. For what else is His people, but what followeth, "In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem"? For than that which is returned grateful, if it be returned from peace, and in peace. But they who are not sons of this handmaid, have loved war rather than peace. ...
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 116

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Alleluia — The Greek form (Rev. 19:1, 3, 4, 6) of the Hebrew Hallelujah = Praise ye Jehovah, which begins or ends several of the psalms (106, 111, 112, 113, etc.).
Temple, the Second — After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims, forming…
Church · General references — General references
Missionaries, All Christians Should Be As · In declaring what God has done for them — In declaring what God has done for them

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 116:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:10–end

John Gill on Psalms 116:19

John Calvin on Psalms 116:15–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 116:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:10–end

John Gill on Psalms 116:19

John Calvin on Psalms 116:15–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 116:15–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 116:15-19

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 116:19