Chapter 84 - The joy of the Godly
1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD (of hosts)!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts (of the LORD): my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 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 thy house: they will be still praising thee.
Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley (of Baca) make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8 O LORD (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 thine anointed.
10 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 (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 trusteth in thee.