#  Psalm 84: Better is One Day

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#  Scripture

Psalm 84

English Standard Version

### My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

#### To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.\[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2084&version=ESV#fen-ESV-15261a "See footnote a")\] A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

84 How lovely is your dwelling place,
 O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
 for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
 to the living God.

3 Even 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.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
 ever singing your praise! Selah

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
 in whose heart are the highways to Zion.\[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2084&version=ESV#fen-ESV-15265b "See footnote b")\]

6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
 they make it a place of springs;
 the early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
 each one appears before God in Zion.

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
 give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
 look on the face of your anointed!

10 For 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.
11 For 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.
12 O Lord of hosts,
 blessed is the one who trusts in you!