Psalm 84, side by side

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!

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

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

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

³Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my 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.

⁴How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah

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

⁵Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

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

⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

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

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

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

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

⁹Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

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

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

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 a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

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, how blessed is the man who trusts in You!

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