Psalm 84–85

Psalm 84

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹How amiable are thy tabernacles,

O Jehovah of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah;

My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

³Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house,

And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,

Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts,

My King, and my God.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:

They will be still praising thee. Selah

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;

In whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs;

Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength;

Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

⁸O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

⁹Behold, O God our shield,

And look upon the face of thine anointed.

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 Jehovah God is a sun and a shield:

Jehovah will give grace and glory;

No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

¹²O Jehovah of hosts,

Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 85

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land;

Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people;

Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

³Thou hast taken away all thy wrath;

Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation,

And cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?

Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

⁶Wilt thou not quicken us again,

That thy people may rejoice in thee?

⁷Show us thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah,

And grant us thy salvation.

⁸I will hear what God Jehovah will speak;

For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints:

But let them not turn again to folly.

⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him,

That glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together;

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹¹Truth springeth out of the earth;

And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.

¹²Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good;

And our land shall yield its increase.

¹³Righteousness shall go before him,

And shall make his footsteps a way to walk in.