Psalms 84

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

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD 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, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for 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.

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. (Selah)

How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You.

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

Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

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

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

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

O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob.

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

Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your 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 better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

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 the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

O LORD of Hosts, how blessed is the man who trusts in You!