Psalms 84

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

TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. How beloved Your dwelling places, YHWH 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 desired, indeed, it has also been consumed, For the courts of YHWH, My heart and my flesh cry aloud 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.

Even a sparrow has found a house, And a swallow a nest for herself, Where she has placed her brood—Your altars, O YHWH of Hosts, My king and my God.

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

O the blessedness of those inhabiting Your house, Yet they praise You. (Selah)

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

O the blessedness of a man whose strength is in You, Highways [are] in their heart.

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

Those passing through a valley of weeping make it a spring, The early 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, He appears to God in Zion.

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

O YHWH, 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.

Our shield, see, O God, And behold 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 a day in Your courts [is] good, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in 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 YHWH God [is] a sun and a shield, YHWH gives grace and glory. He does not withhold good To those walking in uprightness.

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

YHWH of Hosts! O the blessedness of a man trusting in You.