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Psalms 84
Psalm
1 How I love your palace, Yahweh Sabaoth! How my soul yearns and pines for Yahweh’s courts!
2 My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3 The sparrow has found its home at last, the swallow a nest for its young, your altars, Yahweh Sabaoth, my king and my God.
4 Happy those who live in your house and can praise you all day long;
5 and happy the pilgrims inspired by you with courage to make the Ascents! (pause)
6 As they go through the Valley of the Weeper,[*a] they make it a place of springs, clothed in blessings by early rains.
7 Thence they make their way from height to height, soon to be seen before God on Zion.
8 Yahweh Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob;
9 God our shield, now look on us and be kind to your anointed. (pause)
10 A single day in your courts is worth more than a thousand elsewhere; merely to stand on the steps of God’s[*b] house is better than living with the wicked.
11 For God is battlement and shield, conferring grace and glory; Yahweh withholds nothing good from those who walk without blame.
12 Yahweh Sabaoth, happy the man who puts his trust in you!