¹How lovely is Your dwelling place,[#Ps 27:4]

O Lord of Hosts!

²My soul longs and even yearns

for the courtyards of the Lord ;

my heart and my flesh cry out

for the living God.

³Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

at Your altars,

O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.

⁴Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;[#Ps 65:4]

they will still be praising You. Selah

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,

in whose heart are the paths to Zion.

⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

they make it a spring;

the early rain also covers it with pools.

⁷They go from strength to strength;[#Pr 4:18]

every one of them appears in Zion before God.

⁸O Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

⁹Behold our shield, O God,[#Ge 15:1]

and look upon the face of Your anointed.

¹⁰For a day in Your courtyards is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and shield;[#Pr 2:7; Rev 21:23]

the Lord will give grace and glory;

no good thing will He withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

¹²O Lord of Hosts,

blessed is the man who trusts in You.