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Psalm 84
Blessed Is the Man Who Trusts in You
For the choir director. According to the #84:0 Possibly an instrument or a title for a tune.Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.
1How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O Yahweh of hosts!
2My soul has longed and even #84:2 Lit failedfainted for the courts of Yahweh;
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. #84:4 Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical InterludeSelah.
5¶How blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
In #84:5 Lit theirwhose heart are the highways to Zion!
6Passing through the valley of #84:6 Probably Weeping; or Balsam treesBaca they make it a #84:6 Or place of springsspring;
The early rain also wraps it up with blessings.
7They go from strength to strength,
# 84:7 Some ancient versions The God of gods will be seen in Zion 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 #84:11 Lit with regard tofrom those who walk blamelessly.
12O Yahweh of hosts,
How blessed is the man who trusts in You!