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How lovely is the place where you live,
Yahweh of hosts!
2
I long for the courts of Yahweh;
my desire for it has made me exhausted.
My heart and all of my being
shout for joy to the living God.
3
Even the sparrow has found herself a house
and the swallow a nest for herself
where she may lay her young
near your altars, Yahweh of hosts,
my King, and my God.
4
Blessed are they who live in your house;
they praise you continually.
Selah
5
Blessed is the man whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.
6
As they go through the Valley of Tears
they make it a place of springs.
The early rains cover it with blessings.
7
They go from strength to strength;
every one of them appears before God in Zion.
8
Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, God of Jacob!
Selah
9
God, watch over our shield;
show concern for your anointed.
10
For one day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
than to live within the tents of the wicked.
11
For Yahweh God is our sun and shield;
Yahweh will give grace and glory;
he does not withhold any good thing
from those who walk in integrity.
12
Yahweh of hosts,
blessed is the man who trusts in you.