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They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.
Psalms 84:7 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
  • KJV They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
  • BSB They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
  • NKJV They go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion.
  • NASB They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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Quick answer

The pilgrims go from strength to strength until each appears before God in Zion. God sustains His people increasingly until they reach His presence.

Overview

Rather than growing weaker on the journey, those whose strength is in God advance from strength to strength, arriving at last before Him in Zion. This describes the believer's progress, upheld by God all the way to the goal. It assures God's people that He will bring them safely into His presence at the journey's end.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
  • 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
  • Isa 40:31But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
  • Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
  • 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • Ps 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
  • John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
  • Deut 16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
  • John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
  • Ps 42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
  • 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.’”
  • John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
  • 1 Th 4:17then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
  • John 6:39This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
  • Zech 14:16It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
  • Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
  • Luke 2:24and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

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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 84:7 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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