For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Qarun.
1How lovely are your dwellings,
YAHWEH All-Powerful!
2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of YAHWEH.
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,
Near your altars, YAHWEH All-Powerful, my King, and my God.
4Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you. Selah.
5Blessed are those whose strength is in you;
Who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.
Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
7They go from strength to strength.
Every one of them appears before God in Al-Quds.
8YAHWEH God All-Powerful, hear my prayer.
Listen, God of Yaqub. Selah.
9Behold, God our shield,
Look at the face of your MASIH.1
10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11For YAHWEH God is a sun and a shield.
YAHWEH will give grace and glory.
He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
12YAHWEH All-Powerful,
Blessed is the man who trusts in you.
- 84:9 MASIH – an Arabic title equivalent to Messiah (Hebrew) or Christ (Greek), all of which mean Anointed One, that is, God’s Chosen One. In ancient times, divinely-appointed kings, priests and prophets were anointed with oil at their installation ceremony. All of them point ahead to God’s ultimate Anointed One, the Messiah, AL-MASIH. Al-Kitab unanimously points to ‘ISA Ibn Maryam as the only person worthy to bear the title AL-MASIH. He is the one whom God sent into this world to save people from sin, and to usher in God’s Kingdom at his Second Coming. ↩︎