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href="../psalms/83.htm" title="Psalm 83">◄</a> Psalm 84 <a href="../psalms/85.htm" title="Psalm 85">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/psalms/84.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="d">For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>How lovely is your dwelling place,</p><p class="line2">O LORD of Heaven’s Armies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I long, yes, I faint with longing</p><p class="line2">to enter the courts of the LORD.</p><p class="line1">With my whole being, body and soul,</p><p class="line2">I will shout joyfully to the living God.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Even the sparrow finds a home,</p><p class="line2">and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young</p><p class="line1">at a place near your altar,</p><p class="line2">O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What joy for those who can live in your house,</p><p class="line2">always singing your praises.</p><p class="lit">Interlude</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>What joy for those whose strength comes from the LORD,</p><p class="line2">who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When they walk through the Valley of Weeping,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line2">it will become a place of refreshing springs.</p><p class="line2">The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They will continue to grow stronger,</p><p class="line2">and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, hear my prayer.</p><p class="line2">Listen, O God of Jacob.</p><p class="lit">Interlude</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>O God, look with favor upon the king, our shield!</p><p class="line2">Show favor to the one you have anointed.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A single day in your courts</p><p class="line2">is better than a thousand anywhere else!</p><p class="line1">I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God</p><p class="line2">than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the LORD God is our sun and our shield.</p><p class="line2">He gives us grace and glory.</p><p class="line1">The LORD will withhold no good thing</p><p class="line2">from those who do what is right.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/84-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>O LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line2">what joy for those who trust in you.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">84:TITLE </span><span class="ft"> Hebrew </span><span class="it">according to the gittith.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">84:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Valley of Poplars;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">valley of Baca.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">84:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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