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How lovely your dwelling,
    O Lord of hosts!(A)
My soul yearns and pines
    for the courts of the Lord.(B)
My heart and flesh cry out
    for the living God.
[a]As the sparrow finds a home
    and the swallow a nest to settle her young,
My home is by your altars,
    Lord of hosts, my king and my God!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 84:4 The desire of a restless bird for a secure home is an image of the desire of a pilgrim for the secure house of God, cf. Ps 42:2–3, where the image for the desire of the pilgrim is the thirst of the deer for water.