It is a psalm of consolation, glorifying God's word above all things, and provoking us that we should gladly lack all good things, honor, power, joy, and pleasure, that we may keep God's word; and if we should guard the door, that is, be the least in the temple, it would be better than to sit in all the castles of the wicked, and one day here better than a thousand happy days in the world.
For God's word, he says, gives victory, blessing, grace, honor and all good things. Blessed are those who believe and keep it! Yes, where are they? If you blaspheme and despise
The whole world would be full and ready for it.
How lovely are your dwellings, O Lord of hosts! My soul desires and longs for the courts of the Lord; my body and soul rejoice in the living God. For the bird hath found a house, and the swallow her nest, where they have young hedges, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they praise thee for ever. Sela. Blessed are they that think thee their strength, and walk after thee with their hearts, that pass through the valley of tears, and make wells there. And the teachers are adorned with many blessings. They receive one victory after another, so that it must be seen that the right God is in Zion. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; hear it, O God of Jacob. Sela. O God, our shield, behold; behold the kingdom of thine anointed. For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I will rather keep the door of my God's house, than dwell long in the tabernacles of the wicked. For the Lord God is a sun and a shield; the Lord giveth grace and glory; he will not fail to do good to the upright. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.