Psalm 84 - Tree of Life Version

Pilgrim Road to Adonai ’s Courts

¹ For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre, a psalm of the sons of Korah.

² How lovely are Your tabernacles, Adonai-Tzva’ot!

³ My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of Adonai. My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

⁴ Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young —near Your altars, Adonai-Tzva’ot— my King and my God!

⁵ Blessed are they who dwell in Your House —they are ever praising You. Selah

⁶ Blessed is one whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the pilgrim roads.

⁷ Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers it with blessings.

⁸ They go from strength to strength— every one of them appears before God in Zion.

⁹ Adonai-Tzva’ot, hear my prayer, give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

¹⁰ O God, look at our shield, and look upon the face of Your anointed.

¹¹ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather stand at the threshold of the House of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹² For Adonai Elohim is a sun and a shield. Adonai gives grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

¹³ Adonai-Tzva’ot, blessed is the one who trusts in You.