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Psalm 84 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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My Soul Longs for the Courts of the LORD

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[fn] A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

 

How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD of hosts!

My soul longs, yes, faints

for the courts of the LORD;

my heart and flesh sing for joy

to the living God.

   

Even the sparrow finds a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

at your altars, O LORD of hosts,

my King and my God.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house,

ever singing your praise! Selah

   

Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

in whose heart are the highways to Zion.[fn]

As they go through the Valley of Baca

they make it a place of springs;

the early rain also covers it with pools.

They go from strength to strength;

each one appears before God in Zion.

   

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

Behold our shield, O God;

look on the face of your anointed!

   

10 For a day in your courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in 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 favor and honor.

No good thing does he withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

12 O LORD of hosts,

blessed is the one who trusts in you!

 
ESV Footnotes
Probably a musical or liturgical term
Hebrew lacks to Zion
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