Psalm 84 – A Reading
Reading by Elizabeth Stewart
1 How lovely is the place where you live,
O Lord who rules over all!
2 I desperately want to be
in the courts of the Lord’s temple.
My heart and my entire being shout for joy
to the living God.
3 Even the birds find a home there,
and the swallow builds a nest,
where she can protect her young
near your altars, O Lord who rules over all,
my king and my God.
4 How blessed are those who live in your temple
and praise you continually! (Selah)
5 How blessed are those who find their strength in you,
and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!
6 As they pass through the Baca Valley,
he provides a spring for them.
The rain even covers it with pools of water.
7 They are sustained as they travel along;
each one appears before God in Zion.
8 O Lord, sovereign God,
hear my prayer!
Listen, O God of Jacob! (Selah)
9 O God, take notice of our shield!
Show concern for your chosen king!
10 Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better
than spending a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God
than live in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the Lord God is our sovereign protector.
The Lord bestows favor and honor;
he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.
12 O Lord who rules over all,
how blessed are those who trust in you!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ELIZABETH STEWART
is the Worship Leader at GraceLife Church in the Charlotte, NC area. She earned her bachelor’s degree in music from Hunter College in New York City, and is completing her master’s degree in Biblical and Theological Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in 2023. Elizabeth is the founder and leader of a mentoring group for women in their 20s and 30s called Take Root which meets weekly in uptown Charlotte. Elizabeth and her husband, Michael, live with their boys, William and John in South Carolina.
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