How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! The psalmist longs for God's courts, and says that even a sparrow finds a home near his altar. A day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.
1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith , A Psalm for the sons of Korah . How amiable are thy tabernacles , O LORD of hosts !
2 My soul longeth , yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God .
3 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 .
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : they will be still praising thee. Selah .
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well ; the rain also filleth the pools .
7 They go from strength to strength , every one of them in Zion appeareth before God .
8 O LORD God of hosts , hear my prayer : give ear , O God of Jacob . Selah .
9 Behold , O God our shield , and look upon the face of thine anointed .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 O LORD of hosts , blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.