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Lift up your heads, you gates; Be lifted up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
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A Royal Welcome for God
Commentators agree that the psalm's original setting is the triumphant procession of the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem. The poetic command for the 'gates' and 'everlasting doors' to 'lift up their heads' is a call for the city to welcome the symbolic presence of God, the 'King of glory,' to His new, permanent dwelling place on Mount Zion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lift up your heads, O you gates - This refers to either the gates of the city or of the house erected for the worship of God; most …
19th Century
Anglican
Gates. —The Septuagint and Vulgate miss this fine personification, by rendering “princes” instead of “heads.”
“Lift up …
Baptist
Now, if Christ is our Shepherd in the meadows down here where he makes us lie down in the green pastures of his grace, he will also be our Shepherd…
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16th Century
Protestant
Lift up your heads, O ye gates! Since the magnificent and splendid structure of the temple, which had more outward majesty than the tabern…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lift up your heads, O you gates By which the gates of hell are not meant; nor are the words to be understood of the …
The splendid entry described here refers to the solemn bringing in of the ark into the tent David pitched for it, or the temple Solomon built for i…
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13th Century
Catholic
Having described tribulations and divine help, the psalmist here commends the power of his helper.
There is no new title in the He…
