Psalms 84

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

1To the Overseer. --`On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' --A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, 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.

2My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

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(Even a sparrow hath found a house, And a swallow a nest for herself, Where she hath placed her brood,) Thine altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, My king and my God.

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

4O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.

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

5O the happiness of a man whose strength is in Thee, Highways <FI>are<Fi> in their heart.

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

6Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.

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

7They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.

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

8O Jehovah, God of Hosts, hear my prayer, Give ear, O God 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.

9Our shield, see, O God, And behold 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.

10For good <FI>is<Fi> a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in 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.

11For a sun and a shield <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

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

12Jehovah of Hosts! O the happiness of a man trusting in Thee.