Psalm 84
Quam dilecta!
1 O HOW amiable are thy dwellings * thou Lord of hosts!
2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord * my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young * even thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house * they will be alway praising thee.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee * in whose heart are thy ways.
6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well * and the pools are filled with water.
7 They will go from strength to strength * and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer * hearken, O God of Jacob.
9 Behold, O God our defender * and look upon the face of thine Anointed.
10 For one day in thy courts * is better than a thousand.
11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God * than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness.
12 For the Lord God is a light and defence * the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.
13 O Lord God of hosts * blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee.