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!

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

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

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

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.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow 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 those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.

Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. (Selah)

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

Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them].

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

[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

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.

They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.

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

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah)

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

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

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.

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

For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

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.

O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.