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How lovely are Your adwelling places, O Lord of hosts!
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My asoul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the bliving God.
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The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even Your aaltars, O Lord of hosts, bMy King and my God.
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How ablessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are bever praising You. Selah.
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How blessed is the man whose astrength is in You, In whose heart are the bhighways to Zion!
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Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The aearly rain also covers it with blessings.
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They ago from strength to strength, Every one of them bappears before God in Zion.
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O aLord God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O bGod of Jacob! Selah.
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Behold our ashield, O God, And look upon the face of bYour anointed.
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For aa day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
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For the Lord God is aa sun and bshield; The Lord gives grace and cglory; dNo good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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O Lord of hosts, How ablessed is the man who trusts in You!
Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.