1 Psalm 84 Blessed Is the Man Who Trusts in You For the choir director. According to the 84:0Possibly an instrument or a title for a tune. Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.How lovely are Your dwelling places,O Yahweh of hosts!
2 My soul has longed and even 84:2Lit failed fainted for the courts of Yahweh;My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3 Even the bird has found a home,And the swallow a nest for herself, where she sets her young,At Your altars, O Yahweh of hosts,My King and my God.
4 How blessed are those who dwell in Your house!They are ever praising You. 84:4Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude Selah.
5 ¶How blessed is the man whose strength is in You,In 84:5Lit their whose heart are the highwaysto Zion!
6 Passing through the valley of 84:6Probably Weeping; or Balsam trees Baca they make it a 84:6Or place of springs spring;The early rain also wraps it up with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength, 84:7Some ancient versions The God of gods will be seen in Zion Each one of themappears before God in Zion.
8 ¶O Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;Give ear, O God of Jacob!Selah.
9 See our shield, O God,And look upon the face of Your anointed.
10 For better is a day in Your courts than a thousandelsewhere.I would choose to stand at the threshold of the house of my GodThan dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For Yahweh God is a sun and shield;Yahweh gives grace and glory;No good thing does He withhold 84:11Lit with regard to from those who walk blamelessly.
12 O Yahweh of hosts,How blessed is the man who trusts in You!