84:1 How lovely is the place where you live,1
O sovereign Lord!2
84:2 I desperately want to be3
in the courts of the Lord’s temple.4
My heart and my entire being5 shout for joy
to the living God.
84:3 Even the birds find a home there,
and the swallow6 builds a nest,
where she can protect her young7
near your altars, O sovereign Lord,
my king and my God.
84:4 How happy8 are those who live in your temple
and praise you continually! (Selah)
84:5 How happy are those who9 find their strength in you,
and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!10
84:6 As they pass through the Baca Valley,11
he provides a spring for them.12
The rain13 even covers it with pools of water.14
84:7 They are sustained as they travel along;15
each one appears16 before God in Zion.
hear my prayer!
Listen, O God of Jacob! (Selah)
84:9 O God, take notice of our shield!18
Show concern for your chosen king!19
84:10 Certainly20 spending just one day in your temple courts is better
than spending a thousand elsewhere.21
I would rather stand at the entrance22 to the temple of my God
than live23 in the tents of the wicked.
84:11 For the Lord God is our sovereign protector.24
The Lord bestows favor25 and honor;
he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.26
how happy are those who trust in you!28
Psalm 8529
For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm.