Psalm 84:9-12
The Message
8-9 God-of-the-Angel-Armies, listen:
O God of Jacob, open your ears—I’m praying!
Look at our shields, glistening in the sun,
our faces, shining with your gracious anointing.
10-12 One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship,
beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches.
I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God
than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin.
All sunshine and sovereign is God,
generous in gifts and glory.
He doesn’t scrimp with his traveling companions.
It’s smooth sailing all the way with God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Psalm 84:9-11
New International Version
10 Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper(C) in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the Lord God is a sun(D) and shield;(E)
the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold(F)
from those whose walk is blameless.
Footnotes
- Psalm 84:9 Or sovereign
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