Psalms 84:1-10

¹For the leader. On the gittith. Of the Korahites, a psalm. How dearly loved is the place where you live, Lord of hosts!

²How I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord. Now heart and flesh cry for joy to the living God.

³Even the sparrow has found her a home and the swallow a nest, to lay her young, near your altar, Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

⁴Happy those who live in your house, praising you evermore. Selah

⁵Happy those whose strength is in you, people with pilgrim hearts.

⁶As they pass through the valley of tears, they make it a place of fountains, clothed with the blessings of early rain.

⁷From rampart to rampart on they march, till at last God reveals himself in Zion.

⁸Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer, give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

⁹Behold, O God, our defender, and look upon your anointed,

¹⁰for better a single day in your courts than a thousand in my own chambers: better stand at the door of the house of my God than live in the tents of ungodliness,