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\c 84
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\d For the chief musician; set to the Gittith style. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
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\q
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\v 1 How lovely is the place where you live,
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\q Yahweh of hosts!
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\q
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\v 2 I long for the courts of Yahweh, my desire for it has made me exhausted.
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\q My heart and all of my being call out to the living God.
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\q
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\v 3 Even the sparrow has found her a house
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\q and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young
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\q near your altars, Yahweh of hosts,
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\q my King, and my God.
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\q
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\v 4 Blessed are they who live in your house;
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\q they praise you continually.
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\qs Selah\qs*
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\q
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\v 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you,
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\q in whose heart are the highways up to Zion.
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\q
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\v 6 Passing through the Valley of Tears, they find springs of water to drink.
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\q The early rains cover it with blessings.
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\f + \ft Some versions have \fqa with pools of water \fqa* . \f*
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\q
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\v 7 They go from strength to strength;
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\q every one of them appears before God in Zion.
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\q
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\v 8 Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;
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\q God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying!
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\qs Selah\qs*
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\q
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\v 9 God, watch over our shield;
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\q show concern for your anointed.
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\q
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\v 10 For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.
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\q I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
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\q than to live within the tents of the wicked.
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\q
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\v 11 For Yahweh God is our sun and shield;
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\q Yahweh will give grace and glory;
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\q he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity.
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\q
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\v 12 Yahweh of hosts,
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\q blessed is the man who trusts in you.
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