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Text: | How Dear to Me, O Lord of Hosts |
Tune: | IRISH |
1 How dear to me, O Lord of Hosts,
The place where Thou dost dwell;
The tabernacles of Thy grace
In pleasantness excel.
2 My spirit longs, yea, even faints,
Thy sacred courts to see;
My thirsting heart and flesh cry out,
O living God, for Thee.
3 Beneath Thy care the sparrow finds
A place of peaceful rest;
Where she may safely lay her young
The swallow finds a nest;
4 Then, Lord of Hosts, my King, my God,
Thy love will shelter me;
Beneath Thy altar's peaceful shade
My dwelling place shall be.
5 Blest they who dwell within Thy house,
Their perfect strength Thou art;
Their joyful praise shall never cease,
Thy ways are in their heart.
6 Their tears of grief, like early rain,
Sweet springs of joy shall fill;
With strength renewed they journey safe
To Zion's holy hill.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How dear to me, O Lord of hosts |
Title: | How Dear to Me, O Lord of Hosts |
Meter: | C. M. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Church, The; Dedication Services: Of a Church; God: Protection(1 more...) |
Source: | The Psalter, 1912 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRISH |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | E Major |
Source: | Melody from A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems, Dublin, 1749 |