1. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord:

2. my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

3. Yea, the sparrow hath found a house,

3. and the swallow a nest for herself,

3. where she may lay her young,

3. even thine altars, O Lord of hosts,

3. my King, and my God.

4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:

4. they will be still praising thee. Selah.

5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;

5. in whose heart are the ways of them.

6. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well;

6. the rain also filleth the pools.

7. They go from strength to strength,

7. every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

8. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer:

8. give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

9. Behold, O God our shield,

9. and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.

10. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,

10. than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11. For the Lord God is a sun and shield:

11. the Lord will give grace and glory:

11. no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

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