
84 - Quam dilecta!

1   How lovely are your dwellings, 🞙
    O Lord God of hosts!

2   My soul has a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord; 🞙
    my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.

3   Indeed, the sparrow has found her a house, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young, 🞙
    even your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

4   Blessed are they who dwell in your house; 🞙
    they will be always praising you.

5   Blessed is the one whose strength is in you, 🞙
    in whose heart are your ways,

6   Who going through the valley of misery uses it for a well; 🞙
    indeed, the early rains fill the pools with water.

7   They will go from strength to strength, 🞙
    and the God of gods shall be seen by them in Zion.

8   O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; 🞙
    hearken, O God of Jacob.

9   Behold, O God, our defender, 🞙
    and look upon the face of your Anointed.

10  For one day in your courts 🞙
    is better than a thousand;

11  I would rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God 🞙
    than dwell in the tents of ungodliness.

12  For the Lord God is a light and defense; 🞙
    the Lord will give grace and honor, and no good thing shall he withhold from those who live a godly life.

13  O Lord God of hosts, 🞙
    blessed is the one who puts his trust in you.
