Study Desk

For the director of music. According to gittith.^[b] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

How lovely is your dwelling place,^(a) Lord Almighty!

My soul yearns,^(b) even faints, for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.^(c)

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young— a place near your altar,^(d) Lord Almighty,^(e) my King^(f) and my God.^(g)

Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.^[c]

Blessed are those whose strength^(h) is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.⁽ⁱ⁾

As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs;^(j) the autumn^(k) rains also cover it with pools.^[d]

They go from strength to strength,^(l) till each appears^(m) before God in Zion.⁽ⁿ⁾

Hear my prayer,^(o) Lord God Almighty; listen to me, God of Jacob.

Look on our shield,^[e](p) O God; look with favor on your anointed one.^(q)

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper^(r) in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

For the Lord God is a sun^(s) and shield;^(t) the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold^(u) from those whose walk is blameless.

Lord Almighty, blessed^(v) is the one who trusts in you.