84
For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
1 How lovely is the place where you live,
Yahweh of hosts!
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.
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.
4 Blessed are they who live in your house;
they praise you continually.
Selah
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.
6 Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink.
The early rains cover it with blessings. *
7 They go from strength to strength;
every one of them appears before God in Zion.
8 Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;
God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying!
Selah
9 God, watch over our shield;
show concern for your anointed.
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.
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.
12 Yahweh of hosts,
blessed is the man who trusts in you.
* 84:6 Some versions have with pools of water .