How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God.
Yes, the sparrow has found an 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.
Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. Selah.
Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also fills the pools.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Behold, O God our shield, and look on the face of your anointed.
For a day in your 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.
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.
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.
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