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How lovely are Your dwelling places, LORD of armies!

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

My soul longed and even yearned for the courtyards of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may put her young: Your altars, LORD of armies, My King and my God.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

Blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

Blessed is the person whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the roads to Zion!

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Passing through the Valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

LORD God of armies, hear my prayer; Listen, God of Jacob! Selah

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

See our shield, God, And look at the face of Your anointed.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

For a day in Your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than live in the tents of wickedness.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

LORD of armies, Blessed is the person who trusts in You!

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.