Psalms 84

1 For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine presses. How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

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 Yes, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove 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 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 they that dwell in your house: they will praise you evermore. (Pause)

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

5 Blessed is the man whose help is of you, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up

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

6 the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings.

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

7 They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

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

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: listen, O God of Jacob. (Pause)

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

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

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

10 For one day in your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents 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 the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

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

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.