Psalm 84

Psalm 83

A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.

¹O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

²For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. ³Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints. ⁴They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. ⁵For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee; ⁶even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; ⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. ⁸ Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

⁹Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. ¹⁰They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee

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and Salmana; even all their princes: ¹²who said, let us take to ourselves the ¹altar of God as an inheritance. ¹³O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. ¹⁴As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; ¹⁵so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger. ¹⁶Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord. ¹⁷Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed. ¹⁸And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 84

For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses.

¹How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! ²My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god. ³Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. Pause. ⁵Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up ⁶the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings. ⁷They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

⁸O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause. ⁹Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed. ¹⁰For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. ¹¹For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. ¹² O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.