1How lovely are your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!
2My soul longs, and even faints, for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3Yes, the sparrow has found a house, 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.
4Blessed are those who live in your house. They will still be praising you. Selah.
5Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well. The rain also fills the pools.
7They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer. Listen, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9Look, O God our shield, and look on the face of your anointed one.
10For one day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.
11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He will hold back no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.