SEV Biblia, Chapter 84:10
Porque mejor es un día en tus atrios que mil fuera de ellos ; escogí antes estar a la puerta en la Casa de mi Dios, que habitar en las moradas de maldad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:10
Verse 10. A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. ] Not only better than one thousand in captivity, as the Chaldee states, but any where else. For in God's courts we meet with God the King, and are sure to have what petitions we offer unto him through his Christ.
I had rather be a doorkeeper ] O what a strong desire does this express for the ordinances of God! Who now prefers the worship of God to genteel, gay, honourable, and noble company, to mirthful feasts, public entertainments, the stage, the oratorio, or the ball! Reader, wouldst thou rather be in thy closet, wrestling in prayer, or reading the Scriptures on thy knees, than be at any of the above places? How often hast thou sacrificed thy amusement, and carnal delight, and pleasures, for the benefit of a pious heart- searching sermon? Let conscience speak, and it will tell thee.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-12 - In all our addresses to God, we must desire that he would look of Christ, his Anointed One, and accept us for his sake: we must look to Him with faith, and then God will with favour look upon the face of the Anointed: we, without him, dare not show our faces. The psalmist plead love to God's ordinances. Let us account one day in God's courts bette than a thousand spent elsewhere; and deem the meanest place in his service preferable to the highest earthly preferment. We are here in darkness, but if God be our God, he will be to us a Sun, to enlighte and enliven us, to guide and direct us. We are here in danger, but he will be to us a Shield, to secure us from the fiery darts that fl thick about us. Through he has not promised to give riches an dignities, he has promised to give grace and glory to all that see them in his appointed way. And what is grace, but heaven begun below in the knowledge, love, and service of God? What is glory, but the completion of this happiness, in being made like to him, and in full enjoying him for ever? Let it be our care to walk uprightly, and the let us trust God to give us every thing that is good for us. If we cannot go to the house of the Lord, we may go by faith to the Lord of the house; in him we shall be happy, and may be easy. That man is really happy, whatever his outward circumstances may be, who trusts in the Lord of hosts, the God of Jacob __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 טוב 2896 יום 3117 בחצריך 2691 מאלף 505 בחרתי 977 הסתופף 5605 בבית 1004 אלהי 430 מדור 1752 באהלי 168 רשׁע׃ 7562
