Psalm - The Old Testament

¹ [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Of the sons of Korah Psalm] How lovely are your dwelling-places, Yahweh Sabaoth.

² My whole being yearns and pines for Yahweh's courts, My heart and my body cry out for joy to the living God.

³ Even the sparrow has found a home, the swallow a nest to place its young: your altars, Yahweh Sabaoth, my King and my God.

⁴ How blessed are those who live in your house; they shall praise you continually. Pause

⁵ Blessed those who find their strength in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

⁶ As they pass through the Valley of the Balsam, they make there a water-hole, and -- a further blessing -- early rain fills it.

⁷ They make their way from height to height, God shows himself to them in Zion.

⁸ Yahweh, God Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob.

⁹ God, our shield, look, and see 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's house than to live in the tents of the wicked.

¹¹ For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield, he gives grace and glory; Yahweh refuses nothing good to those whose life is blameless.

¹² Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you.