Opening the chapter…
How lovely is the place where you live, God of hosts!
I long for the courts of God, my desire for it has made me exhausted. My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.
Even the sparrow has found her a house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young near your altars, God of hosts, my King, and my God.
Blessed are they who live in your house; they praise you continually. Selah
Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.
Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink. The early rains cover it with blessings.
They go from strength to strength; every one of them appears before God in Zion.
God of hosts, hear my prayer; God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying! Selah
God, watch over our shield; show concern for your anointed.
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.
For God is our sun and shield; God will give grace and glory; he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity.
God of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Source
unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (engULB). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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