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Angel-Voices, Ever Singing

Author: Francis Pott (1832-1909) Meter: 8.5.8.5.8.4.3 Appears in 379 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84 Lyrics: 1 Angel-voices, ever singing, round thy throne of light, angel-harps, forever ringing, rest not day nor night; thousands only live to bless thee and confess thee, Lord of might! 2 Yea, we know that thou rejoicest o'er each work of thine; thou didst ears and hands and voices for thy praise design; artist's craft and music's measure for thy pleasure all combine. 3 In thy house, great God, we offer of thine own to thee; and for thine acceptance proffer, in humility, hearts and minds and hands and voices in our choicest psalmody. 4 Honour, glory, might, and merit thine shall ever be, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, blessed Trinity! Of the best that thou hast given, earth and heaven render thee. Topics: Adoration; Angels; Arts and Music; Offertory; Praise of God Used With Tune: ANGEL VOICES

O Lord of Hosts, to Thee I Cry

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84 Lyrics: 1. O Lord of hosts, to Thee I cry, Our fathers’ God, to Thee; Let my petition reach Thine ear, My prayer accepted be. O God our shield, look Thou on us, Reveal Thyself in grace, And let Thine own anointed one Behold Thee face to face. 2. A single day within Thy courts, Where I Thy beauty see, Is better than a thousand days, My God, apart from Thee. A lowly station in Thy house Were dearer to my heart Than in the tents of wickedness To claim the chiefest part. 3. A sun and shield is God, the Lord, To lighten and defend; The Lord to such as look to Him Will grace and glory send. To those that walk in righteousness No good will He deny. O Lord of hosts, how blest are they Who on Thy grace rely! Used With Tune: AUDITE AUDIENTES ME Text Sources: The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 226

And didst thou travel light, dear Lord

Author: Geoffrey Dearmer, 1893-1996 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84:5 Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week; Lent V Year A; Palm Sunday Year C Used With Tune: SOLL 'S SEIN

How shall I sing that majesty

Author: John Mason (1646-1694) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 40 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84:11 Lyrics: 1 How shall I sing that Majesty which angels do admire? Let dust in dust and silence lie; sing, sing, ye heavenly choir. Thousands of thousands stand around thy throne, O God most high; ten thousand times ten thousand sound thy praise; but who am I? 2 Thy brightness unto them appears, whilst I thy footsteps trace; a sound of God comes to my ears; but they behold thy face. They sing because thou art their Sun: Lord, send a beam on me; for where heaven is but once begun, there alleluias be. 3 How great a being Lord, is thine, which doth all beings keep! Thy knowledge is the only line to sound so vast a deep. Thou art a sea without a shore, a sun without a sphere; thy time is now and evermore, thy place is everywhere. Topics: Adoration Of God; God in majesty; God names and imags of Used With Tune: COE FEN

How lovely is thy dwelling place

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 53 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84 Topics: The Church Used With Tune: BROTHER JAMES' AIR Text Sources: The Psalms of David in Meeter, 1650 (sts. 1-2)

The Garden Needs Our Tending Now

Author: Mary Louise Bringle Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 84:1-4 Topics: Animals; Creation Care; Heritage 16th-Century; Lament; Land; New Creation Used With Tune: UNE JEUNE PUCELLE

Psalm 84

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84:1-4 First Line: My soul, how lovely is the place Lyrics: My soul, how lovely is the place To which thy God resorts! 'Tis heav'n to see his smiling face, Though in his earthly courts. There the great Monarch of the skies His saving power displays, And light breaks in upon our eyes With kind and quick'ning rays. With his rich gifts the heav'nly Dove Descends and fills the place, While Christ reveals his wondrous love, And sheds abroad his grace. There, mighty God, thy words declare The secrets of thy will; And still we seek thy mercy there, And sing thy praises still. My heart and flesh cry out for thee, While far from thine abode; When shall I tread thy courts, and see My Savior and my God? The sparrow builds herself a nest, And suffers no remove; O make me, like the sparrows, blest, To dwell but where I love. To sit one day beneath thine eye, And hear thy gracious voice, Exceeds a whole eternity Employed in carnal joys. Lord, at thy threshold I would wait While Jesus is within, Rather than fill a throne of state, Or live in tents of sin. Could I command the spacious land, And the more boundless sea, For one blest hour at thy right hand I'd give them both away. Topics: Delight in God; Delight and safety in the church; Worship public; Public prayer and praise; Church God's presence there; Glory and grace promised; God present in his churches; Grace and glory; Worship delight in it

Deprecating the anger of God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 186 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84:4 First Line: Behold, O Lord! before thy throne Topics: Miscellaneous Public Fasts Used With Tune: LANESBORO

Lord God, omnipotent to bless

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84:8 Lyrics: 1 Lord God, omnipotent to bless, My supplication hear; Guardian of Jacob, to my voice Incline thy gracious ear. 2 If I have never yet begun To tread the sacred road, O teach my wandering feet the way To Zion's blest abode! 3 Or if I'm travelling in the path, Assist me with thy strength, And let me swift advances make, And reach thine heaven at length. 4 My care, my hope, my first request, Are all compris'd in this, To follow where thy saints have led, And then partake their bliss. Topics: Worship Hymns After Sermon; Sufficient grace desired; Heart now desired; Public Religion

My never-ceasing song shall show

Author: Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 78 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 84:11 Lyrics: 1 My never-ceasing song shall show The mercies of the Lord, And make successive ages know How faithful is his word. 2 The sacred truth his lips pronounce Shall firm as heaven endure; And if he speaks a promise once, The eternal grace is sure. 3 How long the race of David held The promised Jewish throne! But there's a nobler covenant sealed To David's greater Son. 4 His seed forever shall possess A throne above the skies; The meanest subject of his grace Shall to that glory rise. 5 Lord God of hosts, thy wondrous ways Are sung by saints above; And saints on earth their honors raise To thy unchanging love. Topics: Attributes of God Faithfulness; From Generation to Generation