Psalms 84

1 [For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.] How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of hosts.

How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

2 My soul longs, yes, yearns for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God.

3 Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Yea, the sparrow has found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are ever praising you. (Selah)

Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. (Selah)

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them.

6 Passing through the Valley of Baca, he makes it into a spring. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also fills the pools.

7 They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.

8 LORD, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. (Selah)

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah)

9 Look, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed.

10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

12 LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.