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!

“To the chief musician upon Gittith, by the sons of Korach, a psalm.” How lovely are thy dwelling-places, O Lord 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 desired, yea, it also longed for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh shout with joy unto 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.

Even as the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: —[have I found] thy altars, O Lord 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)

Happy are they who dwell in thy house: they will be continually praising thee. (Selah)

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

Happy is the man whose strong confidence is in thee, [all] whose heart reflecteth on the paths [of righteousness].

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 will change it into a spring: also the early rain covereth 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 of them appeareth before God in Zion.

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

O Lord 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.

[Thou, ] our shield, behold, O God, and look upon the face of thy 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 better is a day in thy courts than a thousand [elsewhere]: I would rather choose to wait at the threshold of 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 a sun and shield is the Lord God; grace and glory will the Lord give; he will not withhold any good from those that walk with integrity.

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

O Lord of hosts, happy is the man that trusteth in thee.