Psalm 84

¹ How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!

² My soul longs, even faints,
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
to the living God.

³ Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself
where she may lay her young—
your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my King and my God.

⁴ Happy are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising you. Selah

⁵ Happy are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶ Passing through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain covers it with blessings.

⁷ They go from strength to strength;
each appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

⁹ Look upon our shield, O God;
gaze on the face of your anointed.

¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows grace and glory.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk with integrity.

¹² O LORD of hosts,
happy is the one who trusts in you.