Satisfaction

Psalm 84

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,

  O Lord of hosts!

2 My soul longs, yes, faints

  for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and flesh sing for joy

  to the living God.

3 Even the sparrow finds a home,

  and the swallow a nest for herself,

  where she may lay her young,

at your altars, O Lord of hosts,

  my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,

  ever singing your praise! Selah

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

  in whose heart are the highways to Zion.[b]

6 As they go through the Valley of Baca

  they make it a place of springs;

  the early rain also covers it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength;

  each one appears before God in Zion.

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;

  give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

9 Behold our shield, O God;

  look on the face of your anointed!

10 For a day in your courts is better

  than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

  than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

  the Lord bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does he withhold

  from those who walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of hosts,

  blessed is the one who trusts in you!