Psalm 84

English Standard Version

My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to ^(A)The Gittith.^[a] A Psalm of ^(B)the Sons of Korah.

84 How ^(C)lovely is your ^(D)dwelling place,
    O Lord of hosts!
²My soul ^(E)longs, yes, ^(F)faints
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
    to ^(G)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,
    ^(H)my King and my God.
⁴^(I)Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
    ever ^(J)singing your praise! Selah

⁵Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
    ^(K)in whose heart are the highways to Zion.^[b]
⁶As they go through the Valley of Baca
    they make it a place of springs;
    ^(L)the early rain also covers it with ^(M)pools.
⁷They go ^(N)from strength to strength;
    each one ^(O)appears before God in Zion.

⁸O ^(P)Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
⁹^(Q)Behold our ^(R)shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!

¹⁰For a day ^(S)in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be ^(T)a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹For the Lord God is ^(U)a sun and ^(V)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
^(W)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who ^(X)walk uprightly.
¹²O Lord of hosts,
    ^(Y)blessed is the one who trusts in you!

Footnotes

Psalm 84:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 84:5 Hebrew lacks to Zion

Jeremiah 1:4-10

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The Call of Jeremiah

⁴Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

⁵^(A)“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born ^(B)I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet ^(C)to the nations.”

⁶Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, ^(D)I do not know how to speak, ^(E)for I am only a youth.” ⁷But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and ^(F)whatever I command you, you shall speak.
⁸^(G)Do not be afraid of them,
^(H)for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”

⁹^(I)Then the Lord put out his hand and ^(J)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have put ^(K)my words in your mouth.
¹⁰See, I have set you this day ^(L)over nations and over kingdoms,
^(M)to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

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1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13

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³¹But ^(A)earnestly desire the higher gifts.

And I will show you a still more excellent way.

The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have ^(B)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ^(C)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³^(D)If I give away all I have, and ^(E)if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴^(F)Love is patient and ^(G)kind; love ^(H)does not envy or boast; it ^(I)is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It ^(J)does not insist on its own way; it ^(K)is not irritable or resentful;^[b] ⁶it ^(L)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^(M)rejoices with the truth. ⁷^(N)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^(O)endures all things.

⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For ^(P)we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but ^(Q)when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹²For ^(R)now we see in a mirror dimly, but ^(S)then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as ^(T)I have been fully known.

¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes

1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing