^84:1 How beloved are your tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! ^84:2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of Jehovah. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

    ^84:3 Yes, the sparrow has found her a house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, even your altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.

    ^84:4 Those who dwell in your house are fortunate. They will still be praising you. Selah.

    ^84:5 The man whose strength is in you is fortunate, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.^84:6 Passing through the valley of weeping they make it a place of springs. Yes, the early rain covers it with blessings.

    ^84:7 They go from strength to strength; each one of them appears before God in Zion.

    ^84:8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer. Listen, O God of Jacob. Selah.

    ^84:9 Behold, O God our shield and look upon the face of your anointed. ^84:10 Because a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

    ^84:11 Because Jehovah God is a sun and a shield. Jehovah will give favor and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

    ^84:12 O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.