King James Version KJV
Good News Translation GNT
1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
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How I love your Temple, Lord Almighty!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
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How I want to be there! I long to be in the Lord's Temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
3 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.
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Even the sparrows have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home; they keep their young near your altars, Lord Almighty, my king and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
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How happy are those who live in your Temple, always singing praise to you.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
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How happy are those whose strength comes from you, who are eager to make the pilgrimage to Mount Zion.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
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As they pass through the dry valley of Baca, it becomes a place of springs; the autumn rain fills it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
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They grow stronger as they go; they will see the God of gods on Zion.
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
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Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty. Listen, O God of Jacob!
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
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Bless our king, O God, the king you have chosen.
10 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.
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One day spent in your Temple is better than a thousand anywhere else; I would rather stand at the gate of the house of my God than live in the homes of the wicked.
11 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.
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The Lord is our protector and glorious king, blessing us with kindness and honor. He does not refuse any good thing to those who do what is right.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
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Lord Almighty, how happy are those who trust in you!
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.