PSALM 84

¹For the lead player on the gittith, for the Korahites, a psalm.

    ²How lovely Your dwellings,

          O LORD of Armies!

    ³My being longed, even languished,

          for the courts of the LORD.

    My heart and my flesh

          sing gladness to the living God.

    ⁴Even the bird has found a home,

          and the swallow a nest for itself,

    that puts its fledglings by Your altars,

          LORD of Armies, my king and my God.

    ⁵Happy are those who dwell in Your house,

          they will ever praise You.

selah

    ⁶Happy the folk whose strength is in You,

          the highways in their heart,

    ⁷who pass through the Valley of Baca,

          they make it into a spring—

                yes, the early rain cloaks it with blessings.

    ⁸They go from rampart to rampart,

          they appear before God in Zion.

    ⁹LORD, God of Armies, hear my prayer.

          Hearken, O God of Jacob.

selah

    ¹⁰Our shield, O God, see,

          and regard Your anointed one’s face

    ¹¹For better one day in Your courts

          than a thousand I have chosen,

    standing on the threshold in the house of my God,

          than living in the tents of wickedness.

    ¹²For a sun and shield is the LORD,

          God is grace and glory.

    The LORD grants, He does not withhold

          bounty to those who go blameless.

    ¹³O LORD of Armies,

          happy the man who trusts in You.