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Even the birds find a home there,
and the swallow[a] builds a nest,
where she can protect her young[b]
near your altars, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
my King and my God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 84:3 tn The word translated “swallow” occurs only here and in Prov 26:2.
  2. Psalm 84:3 tn Heb “even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, [in] which she places her young.”sn The psalmist here romanticizes the temple as a place of refuge and safety. As he thinks of the birds nesting near its roof, he envisions them finding protection in God’s presence.