Psalm 84–86

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.

Psalm 86

A Prayer of David.

¹Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me;

For I am poor and needy.

²Preserve my soul; for I am godly:

O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

³Be merciful unto me, O Lord;

For unto thee do I cry all the day long.

⁴Rejoice the soul of thy servant;

For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

⁵For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive,

And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.

⁶Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer;

And hearken unto the voice of my supplications.

⁷In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee;

For thou wilt answer me.

⁸There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord;

Neither are there any works like unto thy works.

⁹All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord;

And they shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰For thou art great, and doest wondrous things:

Thou art God alone.

¹¹Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth:

Unite my heart to fear thy name.

¹²I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart;

And I will glorify thy name for evermore.

¹³For great is thy lovingkindness toward me;

And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹⁴O God, the proud are risen up against me,

And a company of violent men have sought after my soul,

And have not set thee before them.

¹⁵But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious,

Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

¹⁶Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me;

Give thy strength unto thy servant,

And save the son of thy handmaid.

¹⁷Show me a token for good,

That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame,

Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.