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Text: | How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place |
Tune: | MCKEE |
Arranger: | Harry T. Burleigh (1886-1949) |
1 How lovely is Thy dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts to me!
The tabernacles of Thy grace
How pleasant, Lord, they be!
2 My thirsty soul longs ardently,
Yea, faints Thy courts to see;
My very heart and flesh cry out,
O living God, for Thee.
3 Behold the sparrow findeth out
A house where-in to rest;
The swallow also, for herself
Provided hath a nest.
4 Ev’n Thine own altars, where she safe
Her young ones forth may bring,
O Thou, almighty Lord of hosts,
Who art my God and King.
5 Blest are they in Thy house that dwell,
They ever give Thee praise.
Blest is the man whose strength Thou art,
In whose heart are Thy ways.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How lovely is Thy dwelling place |
Title: | How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place |
Meter: | C.M. |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | |
Source: | Scottish Psalter, 1650 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MCKEE |
Arranger: | Harry T. Burleigh (1886-1949) (1939) |
Meter: | C.M. |
Incipit: | 15555 77656 11511 |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Source: | American Negro Spiritual |