1 How beloved are your dwellings, O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul yearns, even wastes away, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3 The sparrow too has found a house, and the swallow a nest of her own, where she has set her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are they who live in your house; they will praise you continually. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca they turn it into a spring; the early rain, too, clothes it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
8 LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Look upon our shield, O God; regard the face of your anointed.
10 For better is one day in your courts than a thousand; I would choose to stand at the door of the house of my God rather than live in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is sun and shield; the LORD bestows grace and glory; no good thing will he hold back from those who walk uprightly.
12 LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you!