For the music leader, on the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Qorah.

How desirable are your dwelling places, יהוה of hosts.

My soul longs and also faints for the courtyards of יהוה. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living Elohim.

Even the bird finds a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she has placed her young, by your altars, יהוה of hosts, my King and my Elohim.

Blessed are those dwelling in your house; they will praise you continually. Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways.

Passing through the valley of weeping, they make it a spring; the early rain also covers it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength; each one appears before Elohim in Tsiyon.

יהוה Elohim of hosts, hear my prayer. Give ear, O Elohim of Ya'aqov. Selah.

Behold, O Elohim our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed one.

For a day in your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would choose to stand at the threshold of the house of my Elohim rather than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For יהוה Elohim is a sun and a shield. יהוה gives favor and honor. He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

יהוה of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.