Salmos 84

My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to #Ps. 8, title; 81, title The 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!