Psalm 84–85

PSALM 84

Blessed Is the Man Who Trusts in You

For the choir director. According to the ^†Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

¹How lovely are Your ^adwelling places,

O Yahweh of hosts!

²My ^asoul has longed and even ¹fainted for the courts of Yahweh;

My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the ^bliving God.

³Even the bird has found a home,

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

At Your ^aaltars, O Yahweh of hosts,

^bMy King and my God.

⁴How ^ablessed are those who dwell in Your house!

They are ^bever praising You. ¹Selah.

⁵How blessed is the man whose ^astrength is in You,

In ¹whose heart are the ^bhighways to Zion!

⁶Passing through the valley of ¹Baca they make it a ²spring;

The ^aearly rain also wraps it up with blessings.

⁷They ^ago from strength to strength,

¹Each one of them ^bappears before God in Zion.

⁸O ^aYahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Give ear, O ^bGod of Jacob! Selah.

⁹See our ^ashield, O God,

And look upon the face of ^bYour anointed.

¹⁰For ^abetter is a day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere.

I would choose to stand at the threshold of the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For Yahweh God is ^aa sun and ^bshield;

Yahweh gives grace and ^cglory;

^dNo good thing does He withhold ¹from those who walk blamelessly.

¹²O Yahweh of hosts,

How ^ablessed is the man who trusts in You!

PSALM 85

Turn Us Back, O God

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

¹O Yahweh, You showed ^afavor to Your land;

You ^1breturned the fortunes of Jacob.

²You ^aforgave the iniquity of Your people;

You ^bcovered all their sin. ¹Selah.

³You ^awithdrew all Your fury;

You ^bturned back from Your burning anger.

^4aTurn us back, O God of our salvation,

And ^bcause Your vexation toward us to cease.

⁵Will ^aYou be angry with us forever?

Will You prolong Your anger from generation to generation?

⁶Will You not Yourself ^areturn to ¹revive us,

That Your people may ^bbe glad in You?

⁷Show us, O Yahweh, Your lovingkindness,

And ^agive us Your salvation.

⁸Let me hear what the God, Yahweh, will speak;

For He will ^aspeak peace to His people, ¹to His holy ones;

But let them not ^bturn back to ²folly.

⁹Surely ^aHis salvation is near to those who ¹fear Him,

That ^bglory may dwell in our land.

^10aLovingkindness and ¹truth have met together;

^bRighteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹¹¹Truth ^asprings up from the earth,

And righteousness looks down from heaven.

¹²Indeed, ^aYahweh will give what is good,

And our ^bland will yield its produce.

^13aRighteousness will go before Him

And will establish the way of His steps.