¹For the leader. On the gittit . A psalm of the sons of Korach:

²How deeply loved are your dwelling-places,

Adonai -Tzva’ot !

³My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing

for the courtyards of Adonai ;

my heart and body cry for joy

to the living God.

⁴As the sparrow finds herself a home

and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young,

[so my resting-place is] by your altars,

Adonai -Tzva’ot , my king and my God.

⁵How happy are those who live in your house;

they never cease to praise you! (Selah)

⁶How happy the man whose strength is in you,

in whose heart are [pilgrim] highways.

⁷Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley,

they make it a place of springs,

and the early rain clothes it with blessings.

⁸They go from strength to strength

and appear before God in Tziyon.

⁹Adonai , God of armies, hear my prayer;

listen, God of Ya‘akov. (Selah)

¹⁰God, see our shield [the king];

look at the face of your anointed.

¹¹Better a day in your courtyards

than a thousand [days elsewhere].

Better just standing at the door of my God’s house

than living in the tents of the wicked.

¹²For Adonai , God, is a sun and a shield;

Adonai bestows favor and honor;

he will not withhold anything good

from those whose lives are pure.

¹³Adonai -Tzva’ot ,

how happy is anyone who trusts in you!