How lovely your dwelling place, LORD of hosts!
My soul longs and faints even for the LORD's courts!
My heart and my flesh to the living God sing
A sparrow will there find a home
A swallow a nest also has for herself
And there with your altar her young she has laid
My king and my God, LORD of Hosts, they are blessed
Who dwell in your house; they will praise you again!
And blessed is the man who finds his strength in you
In their heart there are highways. As they journey on
The Valley of Baca they make like a spring
It also is covered with blessings by rain
From strength unto strength they will walk, then appear
Before God At Zion. O LORD, God of Hosts
Attend to my prayer; God of Jacob, give ear
O God see our shield; Your Messiah's face view!
Because just one day spent inside of your courts
Is better by far than one thousand removed
To stand, O my God, at the door of your house
I'd choose over living in tents full of sin
Because the LORD God is a sun and a shield
The LORD will give glory and grace
From those walking rightly no good will refuse
O blessed is the man, LORD of hosts, who trusts in you!