1 How lovely are your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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

3 Indeed, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.

Yea, 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.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they will still be praising you. Selah.

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

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the ways to Zion.

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

6 Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a spring; the rain also covers it with pools.

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

7 They go from strength to strength, each one appears before God in Zion.

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

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

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

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

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

10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For 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.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

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.

12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

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