Psalms 84 — ULB

For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah.

84Verse 1How lovely is the place where you live,
Yahweh of hosts!
^{Verse 2}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.
^{Verse 3}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.
^{Verse 4}Blessed are they who live in your house;
they praise you continually. Selah
^{Verse 5}Blessed is the man whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.
^{Verse 6}Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink.
The early rains cover it with blessings.^{+
Verse 7}They go from strength to strength;
every one of them appears before God in Zion.
^{Verse 8}Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;
God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying! Selah
^{Verse 9}God, watch over our shield;
show concern for your anointed.
^{Verse 10}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.
^{Verse 11}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.
^{Verse 12}Yahweh of hosts,
blessed is the man who trusts in you.