Psalms 84

1 To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

3 The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

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

4 Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah)

Blessed are those who dwell in thy house. They will still be praising thee. (Selah)

5 Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

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

6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

Passing through the valley of weeping they make it a place of springs. Yea, the early rain covers it with blessings.

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

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

8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah)

O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer. Give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah)

9 O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

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

10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

For a day in thy 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 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield. Jehovah will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee.