Psalms 84

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Of the sons of Korah Psalm] How lovely are your dwel ing-places, Yahweh Sabaoth.	1 Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
2 My whole being yearns and pines for Yahweh's courts, My heart and my body cry out for joy to theliving God.	2 O Lord, you have blessed your land. You have turned aside the captivity of Jacob.
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.	3 You have released the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sins.
4 How blessed are those who live in your house; they shall praise you continual y. Pause	4 You have mitigated all your wrath. You have turned aside from the wrath of your indignation.
5 Blessed those who find their strength in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.	5 Convert us, O God, our Savior, and turn your anger away from us.
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.	6 Will you be angry with us forever? And will you extend your wrath from generation to generation?
7 They make their way from height to height, God shows himself to them in Zion.	7 O God, you will turn back and revive us. And your people will rejoice in you.
8 Yahweh, God Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob.	8 O Lord, reveal to us your mercy, and grant to us your salvation.
9 God, our shield, look, and see the face of your anointed.	9 I will listen to what the Lord God may be saying to me. For he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those who are being converted to the heart.
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.	10 So then, truly his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory may inhabit our land.
11 For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield, he gives grace and glory; Yahweh refuses nothing good tothose whose life is blameless.	11 Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.
12 Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you.	12 Truth has risen from the earth, and justice has gazed down from heaven.
	13 For so will the Lord give goodness, and our earth will give her fruit.
	14 Justice will walk before him, and he will set his steps upon the way.