Psalms 84

1 to/for to conduct upon [the] Gittith to/for son: descendant/people Korah melody what? beloved tabernacle your LORD Hosts

For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is the place where you live, Yahweh of hosts!

2 to long and also to end: expend soul my to/for court LORD heart my and flesh my to sing to(wards) God alive

I long for the courts of Yahweh, my desire for it has made me exhausted. My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.

3 also bird to find house: home and swallow nest to/for her which to set: put young her with altar your LORD Hosts king my and God my

Even the sparrow has found her a house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young near your altars, Yahweh of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 blessed to dwell house: home your still to boast: praise you (Selah)

Blessed are they who live in your house; they praise you continually. (Selah)

5 blessed man strength to/for him in/on/with you highway in/on/with heart their

Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.

6 to pass in/on/with Valley (of Topheth) [the] (Tophet of) Baca spring to set: make him also blessing to enwrap rain/teacher

Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink. The early rains cover it with blessings.

7 to go: went from strength to(wards) strength to see: see to(wards) God in/on/with Zion

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

8 LORD God Hosts to hear: hear [emph?] prayer my to listen [emph?] God Jacob (Selah)

Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer; God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying! (Selah)

9 shield our to see: see God and to look face anointed your

God, watch over our shield; show concern for your anointed.

10 for pleasant day in/on/with court your from thousand to choose to stand in/on/with house: temple God my from to dwell in/on/with tent wickedness

For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to live within the tents of the wicked.

11 for sun and shield LORD God favor and glory to give: give LORD not to withhold good to/for to go: walk in/on/with unblemished: blameless

For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; Yahweh will give grace and glory; he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity.

12 LORD Hosts blessed man to trust in/on/with you

Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.