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I was glad when they said to me, "Let`s go to Yahweh`s house!"
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A Joyful Invitation
Commentators universally highlight that the psalmist's gladness is a model for believers. The invitation to go to God's house isn't a burden but a welcome call that meets a heart's desire. This verse encourages a joyful anticipation for corporate worship, seeing it as a privilege and a source of deep happiness, not a mere duty.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I was glad - It was a subject of joy to me. The return of the happy season when we were to go up to worship filled me with joy. The language…
19th Century
Anglican
Let us go. — Or, we will go. This verse is inscribed over the portico of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Baptist
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
I was glad for their sake, glad to think they were so will…
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16th Century
Protestant
I was glad when they said to me. God had often told Moses that His sanctuary would one day have a certain and fixed place of abode; yet fr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I was glad when they said to me Or, "I rejoiced in", or "because of, those that said to me" F2 ; or, "in …
The pleasure and profit from means of grace, should make us disregard trouble and fatigue in going to them; and we should encourage one another to …
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