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My soul yearns and pines
    for the courts of the Lord.(A)
My heart and flesh cry out
    for the living God.

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[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)

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Footnotes

  1. 84:4 The desire of a restless bird for a secure home is an image of the desire of a pilgrim for the secure house of God, cf. Ps 42:2–3, where the image for the desire of the pilgrim is the thirst of the deer for water.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house!
    They never cease to praise you.
Selah

II

Blessed the man who finds refuge in you,
    in their hearts are pilgrim roads.

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They will go from strength to strength[a]
    and see the God of gods on Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. 84:8 Strength to strength: pass through outer and inner wall.

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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