Psalms 84 -- Old Testament -- Gospel Daily

Psalms

Chapter 84

Longing for God's House and Blessing

The psalmist expresses deep longing for God's tabernacles and courts, desiring them more than earthly dwellings. Those who dwell in God's house are blessed and continually praise Him, and blessed too are those whose strength is in God and whose hearts are set on His ways. As pilgrims pass through the valley of Baca, they make it a well and gain strength to strength. The psalmist prefers one day in God's courts and being a doorkeeper in His house to living in tents of wickedness, for God gives grace, glory, and withhold no good from those who walk uprightly.

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¹How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

³Yea, 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.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

⁶Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

⁷They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

⁹Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

¹⁰For 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.

¹¹For 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.

¹²O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.