My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord
To the choirmaster: according to Ps. 8, title;81, titleThe Gittith.84:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term A Psalm of Ps. 42, titlethe Sons of Korah.
1 How [Ps. 27:4] lovely is your Ps. 43:3;132:5dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul [Ps. 42:1,2;63:1] longs, yes, [Ps. 73:26;119:81;143:6;Job 19:27] faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to See Ps. 42:2the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
Ps. 5:2my King and my God.
4 See Ps. 65:4Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever Ps. 42:5,11;43:5singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
[Ps. 122:1]in whose heart are the highways to Zion.84:5 Hebrew lacks to Zion
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
Joel 2:23the early rain also covers it with Ezek. 34:26pools.
7 They go Prov. 4:18;Isa. 40:31;[John 1:16;2 Cor. 3:18] from strength to strength;
each one See Ps. 42:2appears before God in Zion.
8 O See Ps. 59:5Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Ps. 80:14Behold our See Ps. 3:3shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day ver. 2in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be 1 Chr. 26:19a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is Isa. 60:19,20;See Ps. 27:1;Mal. 4:2;Rev. 21:23a sun and [See ver. 9above] shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
Ps. 85:12;[Ps. 34:9,10;Matt. 6:33;7:11] No good thing does he withhold
from those who Ps. 15:2;Prov. 2:7walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
See Ps. 2:12blessed is the one who trusts in you!