Psalm 84:2 {83:3}
Good News Translation
How I want to be there! I long to be in the LORD's Temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.

New Revised Standard Version
My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Contemporary English Version
Deep in my heart I long for your temple, and with all that I am I sing joyful songs to you.

New American Bible
My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

soul

Psalm 42:1,2 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God. . . .

Psalm 63:1,2 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! . . .

Psalm 73:26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 119:20,81 My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times. . . .

Psalm 143:6 I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

Songs 2:4,5 He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me. . . .

Songs 5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

heart

Job 23:3 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?

Isaiah 26:9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Isaiah 64:1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Context
Better is One Day in Your Courts
1Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 2my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.3For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.…
Cross References
Psalm 42:1
Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

Psalm 42:2
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

Psalm 63:1
A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Psalm 73:26
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 119:20
My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.

Psalm 119:81
My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.

Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Isaiah 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Psalm 84:1
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