Psalms 84

1 How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

2The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the livingGod.

3The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

3 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and myGod.

4Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be constantly praising thee. Selah.

5Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, — they, in whose heart are the highways.

6Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

6 Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

7They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

7 They go from strength to strength: [each one] will appear beforeGod in Zion.

8O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

8 Jehovah,God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, OGod of Jacob. Selah.

9O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

9 Behold, OGod our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of myGod, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

11 For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

12O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

12 Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man that confideth in thee!