Psalms 84

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 For the leader; "upon the gittith." A psalm of the Korahites.	1 [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Of the sons of Korah Psalm] How lovely are your dwel ing-places, Yahweh Sabaoth.
2 How lovely your dwelling, O LORD of hosts!	2 My whole being yearns and pines for Yahweh's courts, My heart and my body cry out for joy to theliving God.
3 My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart and flesh cry out for the living God.	3 Even the sparrow has found a home, the swal ow a nest to place its young: your altars, YahwehSabaoth, my King and my God.
4 As the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest to settle her young, My home is by your altars, LORD of hosts, my king and my God!	4 How blessed are those who live in your house; they shall praise you continual y. Pause
5 Happy are those who dwell in your house! They never cease to praise you. Selah	5 Blessed those who find their strength in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
6 Happy are those who find refuge in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrim roads.	6 As they pass through the Val ey of the Balsam, they make there a water-hole, and -- a further blessing-- early rain fil s it.
7 As they pass through the Baca valley, they find spring water to drink. Also from pools the Lord provides water for those who lose their way.	7 They make their way from height to height, God shows himself to them in Zion.
8 They pass through outer and inner wall and see the God of gods on Zion.	8 Yahweh, God Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob.
9 LORD of hosts, hear my prayer; listen, God of Jacob. Selah	9 God, our shield, look, and see the face of your anointed.
10 O God, look kindly on our shield; look upon the face of your anointed.	10 Better one day in your courts than a thousand at my own devices, to stand on the threshold of God'shouse than to live in the tents of the wicked.
11 Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked.	11 For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield, he gives grace and glory; Yahweh refuses nothing good tothose whose life is blameless.
12 For a sun and shield is the LORD God, bestowing all grace and glory. The LORD withholds no good thing from those who walk without reproach.	12 Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you.
13 O LORD of hosts, happy are those who trust in you!