Psalms 84

1 For the leader. On the gittith. Of the Korahites, a psalm. How dearly loved is the place where you live, Lord of hosts!

To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. O Lord of hostes, howe amiable are thy Tabernacles!

2 How I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord. Now heart and flesh cry for joy to the living God.

My soule longeth, yea, and fainteth for the courtes of the Lord: for mine heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God.

3 Even the sparrow has found her a home and the swallow a nest, to lay her young, near your altar, Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

Yea, the sparrowe hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for her, where she may lay her yong: euen by thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my King and my God.

4 Happy those who live in your house, praising you evermore. (Selah)

Blessed are they that dwell in thine house: they will euer praise thee. (Selah)

5 Happy those whose strength is in you, people with pilgrim hearts.

Blessed is the man, whose strength is in thee, and in whose heart are thy wayes.

6 As they pass through the valley of tears, they make it a place of fountains, clothed with the blessings of early rain.

They going through the vale of Baca, make welles therein: the raine also couereth the pooles.

7 From rampart to rampart on they march, till at last God reveals himself in Zion.

They goe from strength to strength, till euery one appeare before God in Zion.

8 Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer, attend, O God of Jacob. (Selah)

O Lord God of hostes, heare my prayer: hearken, O God of Iaakob. (Selah)

9 Behold, O God, our defender, and look upon your anointed,

Beholde, O God, our shielde, and looke vpon the face of thine Anointed.

10 for better a single day in your courts than a thousand in my own chambers: better stand at the door of the house of my God than live in the tents of ungodliness,

For a day in thy courtes is better then a thousand other where: I had rather be a doore keeper in the House of my God, then to dwell in the Tabernacles of wickednesse.

11 for the Lord is sun and shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from the life that is blameless.

For the Lord God is the sunne and shielde vnto vs: the Lord will giue grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.

12 Lord of hosts, happy those whose trust is in you.

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