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Longing for the Temple Worship.

¹ How lovely are Your ^(C1)dwelling places,
O LORD of hosts!

² My ^(C1)soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the LORD;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the ^(C2)living God.

³ The bird has found a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—
Even Your ^(C1)altars, O LORD of hosts,
^(C2)My King and my God.

^4 (C1)Blessed and greatly favored are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence;
They will be singing ^(C2)Your praises all the day long. Selah.

⁵ Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose ^(C1)strength is in You,
In ^(F1)whose heart are the ^(C2)highways to Zion.

⁶ Passing through the Valley of Weeping (^(F1)Baca), they make it a place of springs;
The ^(C1)early rain also covers it with blessings.

⁷ They ^(C1)go from strength to strength increasing in victorious power;
Each of them ^(C2)appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O ^(C1)LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Listen, O ^(C2)God of Jacob! Selah.

⁹ See our ^(C1)shield, O God,
And look at the face of ^(C2)Your anointed the king as Your representative.

¹⁰ For ^(C1)a day in Your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else;
I would rather stand as a doorkeeper at the threshold of the house of my God
Than to live at ease in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹ For the LORD God is ^(C1)a sun and ^(C2)shield;
The LORD bestows grace and favor and ^(C3)honor;
^(C4)No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

¹² O LORD of hosts,
How ^(C1)blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You believing in You, relying on You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectation.