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Psalm 84.
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Deep affection for God’s dwelling shapes a pilgrim’s song of longing and trust. Even the journey toward worship is pictured as a place of renewed strength.
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- 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
- 2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
- 3Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
- 4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
- 5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
- 6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
- 7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
- 8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
- 9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
- 10For a day in thy 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.
- 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
- 12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
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