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Psalm 84. Quam dilecta!
O HOW amiable are thy dwellings, * thou LORD of hosts!
2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts
of the LORD; * my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a
nest, where she may lay her young; * even thy altars, O LORD
of hosts, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; * they will be alway
praising thee.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; * in whose heart
are thy ways.
6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well; * and
the pools are filled with water.
7 They will go from strength to strength, * and unto the God
of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion.
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 thine
anointed.
10 For one day in thy courts * is better than a thousand.
11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, * than
to dwell in the tents of ungodliness.
12 For the LORD God is a light and defence; * the LORD will give
grace and worship; and no good thing shall he withhold from them
that live a godly life.
13 O LORD God of hosts, * blessed is the man that putteth his
trust in thee.
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