How lovely is Your temple, where the multitudes gather for Your grace!
My soul is longing for the courts of the lord, and my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.
Even the sparrow has found a house and the swallow a nest for her young above Your altars.
Blessed are they that live in Your house, singing Your praises day by day. Blessed is the one who takes from You the strength to live in the world, who walks through it in Your way.
Your blessing goes with those who serve You, who make a well where there was none, to be filled with the rains that You send to the dry earth.
O Lord of hosts, hear my prayer. You are our protection, You who have called us to Your presence.
A day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory: no good will be withheld from those who walk in Your righteousness.
O Lord of hosts, blessed are those who trust in You.
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