Psalm 84:1-7

​Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

¹How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
²My soul longs, indeed it faints
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
³Even 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.
⁴Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise.
Selah

⁵Happy are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
⁶As they go through the valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
⁷They go from strength to strength;
the God of gods will be seen in Zion.