Psalms 84

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

To the Overseer. — 'On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' — A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, 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 desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto 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 hath found a house, And a swallow a nest for herself, Where she hath placed her brood, ) 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)

O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. (Selah)

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

O the happiness of a man whose strength is in Thee, 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, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.

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

They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto 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.

Our shield, see, O God, And behold 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 good [is] a day in Thy courts, 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 a sun and a shield [is] Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

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

Jehovah of Hosts! O the happiness of a man trusting in Thee.