1 H ow lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2 M y soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for 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.

3 E ven the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young— Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, 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.

4 B lessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will still be praising You. Selah

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

5 B lessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.

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

6 A s they pass through the Valley of Baca, They make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools.

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

7 T hey go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion.

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

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

9 O God, behold our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed.

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

10 F or a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell 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.

11 F or the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.

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 who trusts in You!

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