Mazmur 105:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Carilah TUHAN dan kekuatan-Nya, carilah wajah-Nya selalu!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Carilah TUHAN dan kekuatan-Nya, carilah wajah-Nya selalu!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bertanya-tanyalah akan Tuhan dan akan kuat-Nya, caharilah hadirat-Nya selalu.

Contextual Overview

¹ Confesse you [it] vnto God, call vppon his name: cause the people to vnderstande his deuises. ² Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes. ³ Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God. ⁴ Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore. ⁵ Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth. ⁶ O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob: ⁷ he is God our Lord, his iudgementes are in all the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Seek: Amos 5:4-6, Zephaniah 2:2, Zephaniah 2:3

his strength: Psalms 78:61, Psalms 132:8, 2 Chronicles 6:41

seek his face: Psalms 27:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - taken 2 Chronicles 12:14 - to seek 2 Chronicles 14:7 - we have sought Psalms 9:10 - hast Psalms 22:26 - they Psalms 24:6 - that seek Psalms 63:2 - To see Isaiah 51:1 - ye that seek Jeremiah 50:4 - seek the Ezekiel 24:21 - the excellency Hosea 10:12 - time Matthew 7:7 - seek Matthew 28:5 - ye seek Mark 16:6 - Ye seek Luke 11:9 - seek Hebrews 11:6 - diligently

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Seek the Lord and his strength,.... The ark, which is called his strength, and the ark of his strength, Psalms 78:61, because he had shown his great strength by it, in dividing the waters at Jordan, throwing down the walls of Jericho, and plaguing the Philistines because of it, when among them. This was a symbol of God's presence, before which he was sought by his people; and was a type of our Lord Jesus, the man of God's right hand, whom he has made strong for himself, and who is called his strength, Psalms 80:18. Some render it, and which Aben Ezra makes mention of, though he rejects it, "seek the Lord in his strength"; or "by it": God is to be sought in Christ; he is the way of access to him. Or the meaning is, seek strength from the Lord; spiritual strength; strength to assist in the exercise of grace, and discharge of duty; seek it from him, in whom are both righteousness and strength. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, render it, "seek the Lord, and be ye strengthened". The way to gain an increase of spiritual strength is to seek the Lord by prayer, or in his ordinances; see Psalms 138:3. The Targum is,

"seek the doctrine of the Lord, and his law.''

It follows:

seek his face evermore: his favour and lovingkindness; his smiling countenance, which beholds the upright; his gracious presence, and communion with him; which is always desirable, ever to be sought after, and will be eternally and without interruption enjoyed in another world.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seek the Lord and his strength - Seek strength from him; seek that his strength may be imparted to you; seek him as a Being of almighty power; as One by whom you may be strengthened. The Septuagint and Vulgate render this, “Seek the Lord, and ‘be strengthened.’” Strength comes from God, and it is only by his strength that we can be strong; only by our making use of his omnipotence in our own behaIf that we can discharge the duties, and bear the trials of this life. Compare the notes at Isaiah 40:29-31.

Seek his face evermore - His favor. His smiling upon us, his lifting up the light of his countenance, is synonymous with his favor. See Psalms 24:6; Psalms 27:8. Compare the notes at Psalms 4:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 105:4. Seek the Lord — Worship the one only Supreme Being, as the only and all-sufficient good for the soul of man.

And his strength — Man is weak; and needs connexion with the strong God that he may be enabled to avoid evil and do good.

Seek his face — Reconciliation to him. Live not without a sense of his favour.

Evermore. — Let this be thy chief business. In and above all thy seeking, seek this.