1 To the chief musician on the Gittith; for the sons of Korah, a psalm.
2 How lovely [are] thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
3 My soul longeth, yea even faintetb, for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God
4 (Yea [or Also], the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest where she layeth her young), thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my king and my God.
5 Blessed they that dwell in thy house! they will be still praising thee. Selah.
6 Blessed the man whose strength [is] in thee, in whose heart [are] the highways!
7 Passing through the valley of the weeping (Baca), they make it a well-spring; also early rain covereth [it] with blessings.
8 They go from strength to strength; [each] will appear before God in Zion.
9 O Jehovah, God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
10 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
11 For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand: I had rather be at the threshold in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wicked, ness.
12 For a sun and a shield [is] Jehovah God; grace and glory will Jehovah give, no good thing will he withhold from those that walk uprightly.
13 O Jehovah of hosts, blessed the man that trusteth in thee.
Notes on Psalm 84
It is “To the chief musician, on the Gittith, for the sons of Korah, a psalm.” Hence in this psalm the joy of dwelling where Jehovah of host dwells, of the living God in His courts fills the heart with blessedness in contemplation; as also the blessedness of going there for those on the way: all summed up in the blessing of trusting Jehovah of hosts.