Blessed is the man whose {d} strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

(d) Who trusts nothing in himself but in you only, and learns from you to rule his life.

Wesley's Notes

84:5 Whose strength - Who trusteth in thee as his only strength. Thy ways - Blessed are they whose hearts are set upon Zion and their journey is thither.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. (Compare Ps 68:28).

in whose heart . the ways-that is, who knows and loves the way to God's favor (Pr 16:17; Isa 40:3, 4).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

84:1-7 The ordinances of God are the believer's solace in this evil world; in them he enjoys the presence of the living God: this causes him to regret his absence from them. They are to his soul as the nest to the bird. Yet they are only an earnest of the happiness of heaven; but how can men desire to enter that holy habitation, who complain of Divine ordinances as wearisome? Those are truly happy, who go forth, and go on in the exercise of religion, in the strength of the grace of Jesus Christ, from whom all our sufficiency is. The pilgrims to the heavenly city may have to pass through many a valley of weeping, and many a thirsty desert; but wells of salvation shall be opened for them, and consolations sent for their support. Those that press forward in their Christian course, shall find God add grace to their graces. And those who grow in grace, shall be perfect in glory.