{ "1": "How lovely is the place where you live,\n\\q Yahweh of hosts!\n\\q", "2": "I long for the courts of Yahweh, my desire for it has made me exhausted.\n\\q My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "3": "Even the sparrow has found her a house\n\\q and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young\n\\q near your altars, Yahweh of hosts,\n\\q my King, and my God.\n\\q", "4": "Blessed are they who live in your house;\n\\q they praise you continually.\n\\qs Selah\\qs*\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "5": "Blessed is the man whose strength is in you,\n\\q in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.\n\\q", "6": "Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink.\n\\q The early rains cover it with blessings.\n\\f + \\ft Some versions have \\fqa with pools of water \\fqa* . \\f*\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "7": "They go from strength to strength;\n\\q every one of them appears before God in Zion.\n\\q", "8": "Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;\n\\q God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying!\n\\qs Selah\\qs*\n\\q", "9": "God, watch over our shield;\n\\q show concern for your anointed.\n\\q", "10": "For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.\n\\q I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,\n\\q than to live within the tents of the wicked.\n\n\\s5\n\\q", "11": "For Yahweh God is our sun and shield;\n\\q Yahweh will give grace and glory;\n\\q he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity.\n\\q", "12": "Yahweh of hosts,\n\\q blessed is the man who trusts in you.\n\n\n\\s5", "front": "\\m\n\\d For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah.\n\\q" }