Blessed Is the Man Who Trusts in You

¹How lovely are Your dwelling places,

O Yahweh of hosts!

²My soul has longed and even fainted for the courts of Yahweh;[#84:2 Lit failed]

My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

³Even the bird has found a home,

And the swallow a nest for herself, where she sets her young,

At Your altars, O Yahweh of hosts,

My King and my God.

⁴How blessed are those who dwell in Your house!

They are ever praising You. Selah.

⁵¶How blessed is the man whose strength is in You,

In whose heart are the highways to Zion !

⁶Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring;[#84:6 Probably Weeping ; or Balsam trees; #84:6 Or place of springs]

The early rain also wraps it up with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength,

Each one of them appears before God in Zion.

⁸¶O Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah.

⁹See our shield, O God,

And look upon the face of Your anointed.

¹⁰For better is a day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere .

I would choose to stand at the threshold of the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For Yahweh God is a sun and shield;

Yahweh gives grace and glory;

No good thing does He withhold from those who walk blamelessly.

¹²O Yahweh of hosts,

How blessed is the man who trusts in You!