Psalms 84

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah. How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

詠【朝拜上主歌】 科辣黑子孫的詩歌，交於樂官。調寄「加特」。 萬軍的上主，您的居所是多麼可愛！

2 My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.

我的心靈對上主的宮庭渴慕及緬懷。我的心靈及肉身向生活的天主踴躍歡欣。

3 For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

萬軍的上主，我的君王，我的天主，麻雀您的祭壇找到了住所，燕子也找到了安置 幼雛的窩巢。

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.

上主，居住在您的殿宇，時常讚美您的，真是有福！

5 Blessed is the man whose help is from you. In his heart, he is disposed to ascend

那以您作為自己的助佑，居心朝聖的人，真是有福！

6 from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined.

他們把他們經過的乾谷變為水泉，並以初雨給乾谷披上祝福的衣衫。

7 For even the lawgiver will provide a blessing; they will go from virtue to virtue. The God of gods will be seen in Zion.

他們的體力越行越壯，來到熙雍覲見至高天主。

8 O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.

萬軍的上主，求您允我的懇請，雅各伯的天主，求您側耳傾聽！

9 O God, gaze upon our protector, and look upon the face of your Christ.

天主，我們的護盾，求您目睹，請對您的受傅者予以回顧。

10 For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

的確在您的聖殿逗留一日，遠勝過在別處逗千日。我寧願站在我天主殿宇的門限，我不願逗留在惡人帳幕的裏面，

11 For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory.

因為上主天主是護盾。上主常廣施恩愛和光榮；祂對行為正直純潔的人，從來不會拒絕賜祐賜福。

12 He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you.

萬軍的上主，依賴您的人，那人才是真有福的。