| 1. For the conductor, on the gittith, of the sons of Korah, a song. |
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| 2. How beloved are Your dwelling places, O Lord of Hosts! |
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| 3. My soul yearns, yea, it pines for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh pray fervently to the living God. |
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| 4. Even a bird found a house and a swallow her nest, where she placed her chicks upon Your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God. |
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| 5. Fortunate are those who stay in Your house; they will continually praise You forever. |
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| 6. Fortunate is the man who has strength in You, in whose heart are the highways. |
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| 7. Transgressors in the valley of weeping make it into a fountain; also with blessings they enwrap [their] Teacher. |
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| 8. They go from host to host; he will appear to God in Zion. |
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| 9. O Lord, God of Hosts, hearken to my prayer; bend Your ear, O God of Jacob, forever. |
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| 10. See our shield, O God, and look at the face of Your anointed. |
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| 11. For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; I chose to sit on the threshold of the house of My God rather than dwell in tents of wickedness. |
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| 12. For a sun and a shield is the Lord God; the Lord will give grace and glory; He will not withhold good from those who go with sincerity. |
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| 13. O Lord of Hosts, fortunate is the man who trusts in You. |
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