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Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
Psalms 84:5 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
  • BSB Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
  • NKJV Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.
  • NASB ¶Blessed is the person whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the roads to Zion!
  • NLT What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord, who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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Quick answer

Blessed are those whose strength is in God and whose hearts are set on pilgrimage to Him. True strength and direction come from finding God as our hope.

Overview

The second beatitude blesses those who draw their strength from God and have set their hearts on the journey to His presence. The pilgrimage to Zion pictures the believer's whole life as a journey toward God. Those who rely on God rather than themselves are sustained all the way home, a path opened fully through Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Ps 28:7–8Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
  • 2 Cor 12:9He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • Zech 10:12I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
  • Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
  • Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
  • Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
  • Ps 55:14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
  • Jer 50:4–5“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.
  • Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Ps 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
  • Ps 122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
  • Ps 81:1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
  • Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  • Jer 31:6For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”
  • Isa 45:24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 84:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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