The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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1 For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Korach: How deeply loved are your dwelling-places, ADONAI-Tzva'ot!
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How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing for the courtyards of ADONAI; my heart and body cry for joy to the living God.
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My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 As the sparrow finds herself a home and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young, [so my resting-place is] by your altars, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, my king and my God.
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Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 How happy are those who live in your house; they never cease to praise you! (Selah)
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Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5 How happy the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are [pilgrim] highways.
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Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley, they make it a place of springs, and the early rain clothes it with blessings.
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Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength and appear before God in Tziyon.
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They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8 ADONAI, God of armies, hear my prayer; listen, God of Ya'akov. (Selah)
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O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 God, see our shield [the king]; look at the face of your anointed.
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Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10 Better a day in your courtyards than a thousand [days elsewhere]. Better just standing at the door of my God's house than living in the tents of the wicked.
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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For ADONAI, God, is a sun and a shield; ADONAI bestows favor and honor; he will not withhold anything good from those whose lives are pure.
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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 ADONAI-Tzva'ot, how happy is anyone who trusts in you!
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O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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