Psalm 84:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the Lord.(A)
My heart and flesh cry out
for the living God.
Psalm 84:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 [a]As the sparrow finds a home
and the swallow a nest to settle her young,
My home is by your altars,
Lord of hosts, my king and my God!(A)
Psalm 84:5-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 Blessed are those who dwell in your house!
They never cease to praise you.
Selah
II
6 Blessed the man who finds refuge in you,
in their hearts are pilgrim roads.
Psalm 84:8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 They will go from strength to strength[a]
and see the God of gods on Zion.
Footnotes
- 84:8 Strength to strength: pass through outer and inner wall.
Psalm 84:11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
IV
11 Better one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere.
Better the threshold of the house of my God
than a home in the tents of the wicked.
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