¹   How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
²   My soul longs, indeed it faints
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my 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   Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise. Selah

⁵   Happy are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
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;
the God of gods will be seen 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 live in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹  For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the LORD withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
¹²  O LORD of hosts,
happy is everyone who trusts in you.

EVENING PSALM 126