The Heavens Declare (19)

How `lovely / are your dwellings,

`LORD_ / of~ hosts!

`My soul longs, and even faints_ for the courts_ / of the LORD.

My `heart and my flesh cry out for the / living God.

`Even the_ sparrow has_ / found a home,

`and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may / have her young,

`near your altars, LORD of hosts,

my `King_, / and my God. +

`Bless’d are those who dwell_ / in your house.

`They are always / praising you.

Selah.

(Ref)

`Bless’d are those whose strength_ / is in you,

`who have set their hearts_ on a / pilgrimage.

`Passing through the Valley / of Baca, • `they make it a / place of springs.

The `autumn rain_ covers / it with blessings.

They `go from / strength to strength.

`Ev’ry one of them appears before_ / God in Zion.

`LORD_, God of hosts_, / hear my prayer.

`Listen, / God of Jacob.

Selah.

Be `hold_, / God our shield,

`look_ at the face of / your anointed.

`For a day_ / in your courts 

is `better than a thousand / else~ where.

(Ref)

`I would rather be a door_ keeper in the house_ / of my God,

`than to dwell_ in the tents of / wickedness.

`For the LORD_ God_ is a sun_ / and a shield.

The `LORD will give_ / grace and glory.

`He withholds_ / no good thing

from `those who walk_ / blamelessly.

`LORD_ / of~ hosts,

`bless’d_ is the one who / trusts in you.