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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O LORD who rules over all! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O LORD who rules over all, my king and my God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually! (Selah) |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8O LORD, sovereign God, hear my prayer! Listen, O God of Jacob! (Selah) |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9O God, take notice of our shield! Show concern for your chosen king! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For the LORD God is our sovereign protector. The LORD bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12O LORD who rules over all, how blessed are those who trust in you! |
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