1How dearly loved is the place where you live, Lord of hosts!
2How I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord . Now heart and flesh cry for joy to the living God.
3Even the sparrow has found a home and the swallow a nest for herself, to lay her young near your altar, Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
4Happy those who live in your house, praising you evermore. Selah
5Happy those whose strength is in you, people with pilgrim hearts.
6As they pass through the valley of tears, they make it a place of fountains, clothed with the blessings of early rain.
7From rampart to rampart on they march, till at last God reveals himself in Zion.
8Lord , God of hosts, hear my prayer, attend, O God of Jacob. Selah
9Behold, O God, our defender, and look upon your anointed,
10for better a single day in your courts than a thousand in my own chambers: better stand at the door of the house of my God than live in the tents of ungodliness,
11for the Lord is sun and shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from the life that is blameless.
12Lord of hosts, happy those whose trust is in you.