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		Ps 84:1 How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!
		Ps 84:2 My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
		Ps 84:3 The bird has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young-- Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts, My King and my God.
		Ps 84:4 Blessed and greatly favored are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence; They will be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah.
		Ps 84:5 ¶ Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion.
		Ps 84:6 Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; The early rain also covers it with blessings.
		Ps 84:7 They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; Each of them appears before God in Zion.
		Ps 84:8 ¶ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Listen, O God of Jacob! Selah.
		Ps 84:9 See our shield, O God, And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].
		Ps 84:10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.
		Ps 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD bestows grace and favor and honor; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
		Ps 84:12 O LORD of hosts, How blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, relying on You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectation]. To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.<SS>

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