Gittith

Let's talk about the title of the song, Mizmor.

For a chief musician on the Gittit instrument by the sons of Korach, a song.

How wonderful or pleasing are your dwelling places, Hashem.

This mizmor is a very Zionist, I don't know, Zionist, but a mizmor that shows the love that the author had for the Beit HaMikdash and for the house of God.

Psalm 8.

To the chief musician upon Gitteth.

A Psalm of David.

Verse 1.

Psalm eighty-four.

To the chief musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

Verse one.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! Verse two.

Verse twenty-four My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

And now Psalm 84, to the chief musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

Verse one: How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! Verse two: My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Verse three: Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

Hallelujah.

Psalms chapter 8, "To the chief musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou, hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

For the choir director.

On the Gittith.

A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord of armies.

Now let's move on to our next stop in our Bible reading tour, the book of Psalms, Psalm 81, verses 1 through 16.

The ESV titles this psalm, Oh that my people would listen to me, to the choir master, according to the Gittith, which is most likely a musical or liturgical term.

A psalm of Asaph, Psalm 81.

Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

And now, Psalm 84, to the chief musician upon Gittith, a psalm for the sons of Korah.

Verse 1.

How amiable are thy tabernacles! O Lord of hosts.

Let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

Psalm 8.

To the chief musician upon Gittith.

A Psalm of David.

And now, Psalm 84.

To the chief musician upon Gittith.

A psalm for the sons of Korah.

Verse 1.

And now...

Psalm 8.

To the chief musician upon Gittith.

A Psalm of David.

Psalm 84.

To the chief musician upon Gittith, a psalm for the sons of Korah.

Verse 1.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! Verse 2.