Daily Scripture Reading for February 9

Psalm 84

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.
⁸O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
⁹Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed.
¹⁰For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
¹²O Lord of hosts, happy is everyone who trusts in you.

selected by Sharon Deboer