Psalms 84

1 How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

2 My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries 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 Yea, the sparrow has found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, 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 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. (Selah)

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

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them.

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

6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also fills the pools.

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 in Zion appears before God.

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

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

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

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

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

10 For a day in your 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.

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 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.

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 hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

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