42 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
    so my soul pants after you, God.^[a]
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When shall I come and appear before God?
³ My tears have been my food day and night,
    while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
⁴ These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
    how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,
    with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

²⁸ But it is good for me to come close to God.
    I have made the Lord Yahweh^[a] my refuge,
    that I may tell of all your works.

84 How lovely are your dwellings,
    Yahweh of Armies!
² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh.
    My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
³ Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
    and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,
    near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
    They are always praising you. Selah.
⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
⁶ Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.
    Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
⁷ They go from strength to strength.
    Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
⁸ Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer.
    Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
⁹ Behold, God our shield,
    look at the face of your anointed.
¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
    I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
    than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield.
    Yahweh will give grace and glory.
    He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
¹² Yahweh of Armies,
    blessed is the man who trusts in you.