Monday Morning Scripture – Psalm 84

Longing for the Temple Worship.

To the Chief Musician; set to a ^[a]Philistine lute. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹ How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O LORD of hosts!

² My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the LORD;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

³ The bird has found a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—
Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
My King and my God.

⁴ Blessed and greatly favored are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence;
They will be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah.

⁵ Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose strength is in You,
In ^[b]whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶ Passing through the Valley of Weeping (^[c]Baca), they make it a place of springs;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.

⁷ They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power];
Each of them appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Listen, O God of Jacob! Selah.

⁹ See our shield, O God,
And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].
¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else];
I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God
Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
The LORD bestows grace and favor and honor;
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

¹² O LORD of hosts,
How blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, relying on You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectation].

Psalm 84:1-12 (AMP)

Footnotes

[a] Psalm 84:1 A technical musical term, meaning uncertain.

[b] Psalm 84:5 Lit their.

[c] Psalm 84:6 Possibly a kind of plant.