{"id":1391,"date":"2009-11-25T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2009-12-03T22:36:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T22:36:52","slug":"psalm-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>For the director of music. According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How lovely is your dwelling place,<br \/>\nO LORD Almighty!<\/p>\n<p>My soul yearns, even faints,<br \/>\nfor the courts of the LORD;<br \/>\nmy heart and my flesh cry out<br \/>\nfor the living God.<\/p>\n<p>Even the sparrow has found a home,<br \/>\nand the swallow a nest for herself,<br \/>\nwhere she may have her young\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\na place near your altar,<br \/>\nO LORD Almighty, my King and my God.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed are those who dwell in your house;<br \/>\nthey are ever praising you.<br \/>\n<em>Selah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blessed are those whose strength is in you,<br \/>\nwho have set their hearts on pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>As they pass through the Valley of Baca,<br \/>\nthey make it a place of springs;<br \/>\nthe autumn rains also cover it with pools.<\/p>\n<p>They go from strength to strength,<br \/>\ntill each appears before God in Zion.<\/p>\n<p>Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;<br \/>\nlisten to me, O God of Jacob.<br \/>\n<em>Selah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Look upon our shield, O God;<br \/>\nlook with favor on your anointed one.<\/p>\n<p>Better is one day in your courts<br \/>\nthan a thousand elsewhere;<br \/>\nI would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God<br \/>\nthan dwell in the tents of the wicked.<\/p>\n<p>For the LORD God is a sun and shield;<br \/>\nthe LORD bestows favor and honor;<br \/>\nno good thing does he withhold<br \/>\nfrom those whose walk is blameless.<\/p>\n<p>O LORD Almighty,<br \/>\nblessed is the man who trusts in you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the director of music. According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1391\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}