Psalms, 84

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0. To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1. [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Of the sons of Korah Psalm] How lovely are your dwelling-places, Yahweh Sabaoth.

1. How lovely is thy dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

2. My whole being yearns and pines for Yahweh's courts, My heart and my body cry out for joy to the living God.

2. My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

3. Even the sparrow has found a home, the swallow a nest to place its young: your altars, Yahweh Sabaoth, my King and my God.

3. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.

4. How blessed are those who live in your house; they shall praise you continually. Pause

4. Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]

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

5. Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

6. As they pass through the Valley of the Balsam, they make there a water-hole, and -- a further blessing -- early rain fills it.

6. As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

7. They make their way from height to height, God shows himself to them in Zion.

7. They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

8. Yahweh, God Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob.

8. O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]

9. God, our shield, look, and see the face of your anointed.

9. Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!

10. Better one day in your courts than a thousand at my own devices, to stand on the threshold of God's house than to live in the tents of the wicked.

10. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11. For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield, he gives grace and glory; Yahweh refuses nothing good to those whose life is blameless.

11. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly.

12. Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you.

12. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee!