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\c 84
\p
\d For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
\b
\q
\v 1 How lovely is the place where you live,
\q Yahweh of hosts!
\q
\v 2 I long for the courts of Yahweh, my desire for it has made me exhausted.
\q My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.
 
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\q
\v 3 Even the sparrow has found her a house
\q and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young
\q near your altars, Yahweh of hosts,
\q my King, and my God.
\q
\v 4 Blessed are they who live in your house;
\q they praise you continually. 
\qs Selah\qs*
 
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\q
\v 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you,
\q in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.
\q
\v 6 Passing through the valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink.
\q The early rains cover it with blessings.
\f + \ft Some versions have \fqa with pools of water \fqb . \f*
 
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\q
\v 7 They go from strength to strength;
\q every one of them appears before God in Zion.
\q
\v 8 Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;
\q God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying!
\qs Selah\qs*
\q
\v 9 God, watch over our shield;
\q show concern for your anointed.
\q
\v 10 For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.
\q I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
\q than to live within the tents of the wicked.
 
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\q
\v 11 For Yahweh God is our sun and shield;
\q Yahweh will give grace and glory;
\q he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity.
\q
\v 12 Yahweh of hosts,
\q blessed is the man who trusts in you.
 


