1“For the leader of the music. On the Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.” How lovely are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2My soul longeth, yea, fainteth, for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry aloud for the living God.
3The very sparrow findeth an abode, And the swallow a nest, where they may lay their young, By thine altars, O LORD of hosts, My king and my God!
4Happy they who dwell in thy house, Who are continually praising thee! Pause.
5Happy the man whose glory is in thee, In whose heart are the ways to Jerusalem!
6Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a fountain; and the early rain covereth it with blessings.
7They go on from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.
8Hear my prayer, O LORD, God of hosts! Give ear, O God of Jacob! Pause.
9Look down, O God! our shield, And behold the face of thine anointed!
10For a day spent in thy courts is better than a thousand: I would rather stand on the threshold of the house of my God, Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; The LORD giveth grace and glory; No good thing doth he withhold From them that walk uprightly.
12O LORD of hosts! Happy the man who trusteth in thee!
