For A Day In Your Courts Is Better Than A Thousand

This psalm describes how wonderful it is to be in God's presence. This is illustrated as being in His tabernacle, in His courts and even at the post of the doorkeeper. The psalmist clearly yearns for the presence of God with all his soul. The psalmist recognises that those who are blessed are the ones who dwell in God's house, the one whose strength is in God, and the ones who trusts in God.


Psalm 84
To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

 1 How lovely is Your tabernacle,
         O LORD of hosts!
 2 My soul longs, yes, even faints
         For the courts of the LORD;
         My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
        
 3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
         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.
 4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;
         They will still be praising You.  Selah 
        
 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
         Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.
 6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
         They make it a spring;
         The rain also covers it with pools.
 7 They go from strength to strength;
         Each one appears before God in Zion.[b]
        
 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
         Give ear, O God of Jacob!  Selah 
 9 O God, behold our shield,
         And look upon the face of Your anointed.
        
 10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
         I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
         Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
         The LORD will give grace and glory;
         No good thing will He withhold
         From those who walk uprightly.
        
 12 O LORD of hosts,
         Blessed is the man who trusts in You!