Psalms 84

1 For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is the place where you live, Yahweh of hosts!

For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2 I long for the courts of Yahweh, my desire for it has made me exhausted. My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.

My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god.

3 Even the sparrow has found her a house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young near your altars, Yahweh of hosts, my King, and my God.

Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 Blessed are they who live in your house; they praise you continually. (Selah)

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. (Pause)

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.

Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up

6 Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink. The early rains cover it with blessings.

the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings.

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

They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

8 Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer; God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying! (Selah)

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. (Pause)

9 God, watch over our shield; show concern for your anointed.

Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10 For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to live within the tents of the wicked.

For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

11 For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; Yahweh will give grace and glory; he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity.

For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

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

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.