1To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[1] A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! (مز 8:1; مز 27:4; مز 42:1; مز 43:3; مز 81:1; مز 132:5)2My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. (أي 19:27; مز 42:1; مز 42:2; مز 63:1; مز 73:26; مز 119:81; مز 143:6)3Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. (مز 5:2)4Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! (مز 42:5; مز 42:11; مز 43:5; مز 65:4)5Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.[2] (مز 122:1)6As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. (حز 34:26; يؤ 2:23)7They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion. (مز 42:2; أم 4:18; إش 40:31; يو 1:16; 2كو 3:18)8O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! (مز 59:5)9Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed! (مز 3:3; مز 80:14)10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. (1أخ 26:19; مز 84:2)11For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. (مز 15:2; مز 27:1; مز 34:9; مز 84:9; مز 85:12; أم 2:7; إش 60:19; ملا 4:2; مت 6:33; مت 7:11; رؤ 21:23)12O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you! (مز 2:12)