My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord
To the choirmaster: according to (A)The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of (B)the Sons of Korah.
84 How (C)lovely is your (D)dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul (E)longs, yes, (F)faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to (G)the living God.
3 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,
(H)my King and my God.
4 (I)Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever (J)singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
(K)in whose heart are the highways to Zion.[b]
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
(L)the early rain also covers it with (M)pools.
7 They go (N)from strength to strength;
each one (O)appears before God in Zion.
8 O (P)Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 (Q)Behold our (R)shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day (S)in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be (T)a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is (U)a sun and (V)shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
(W)No good thing does he withhold
from those who (X)walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
(Y)blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Footnotes
- Psalm 84:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
- Psalm 84:5 Hebrew lacks to Zion
Cross references
- Psalm 84:1 : Ps. 8, title; 81, title
- Psalm 84:1 : Ps. 42, title
- Psalm 84:1 : [Ps. 27:4]
- Psalm 84:1 : Ps. 43:3; 132:5
- Psalm 84:2 : [Ps. 42:1, 2; 63:1]
- Psalm 84:2 : [Ps. 73:26; 119:81; 143:6; Job 19:27]
- Psalm 84:2 : See Ps. 42:2
- Psalm 84:3 : Ps. 5:2
- Psalm 84:4 : See Ps. 65:4
- Psalm 84:4 : Ps. 42:5, 11; 43:5
- Psalm 84:5 : [Ps. 122:1]
- Psalm 84:6 : Joel 2:23
- Psalm 84:6 : Ezek. 34:26
- Psalm 84:7 : Prov. 4:18; Isa. 40:31; [John 1:16; 2 Cor. 3:18]
- Psalm 84:7 : See Ps. 42:2
- Psalm 84:8 : See Ps. 59:5
- Psalm 84:9 : Ps. 80:14
- Psalm 84:9 : See Ps. 3:3
- Psalm 84:10 : ver. 2
- Psalm 84:10 : 1 Chr. 26:19
- Psalm 84:11 : Isa. 60:19, 20; See Ps. 27:1; Mal. 4:2; Rev. 21:23
- Psalm 84:11 : [See ver. 9 above]; See Ps. 3:3
- Psalm 84:11 : Ps. 85:12; [Ps. 34:9, 10; Matt. 6:33; 7:11]
- Psalm 84:11 : Ps. 15:2; Prov. 2:7
- Psalm 84:12 : See Ps. 2:12