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| Text: | How lovely is thy dwelling place |
| Tune: | HARINGTON |
| Composer: | Henry Harington, 1727-1816 |
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 vehemently;
it 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 wherein to rest;
the swallow also for her young
hath found herself a nest,
4 thine altars, where she might bring forth
her young is safe abode,
O thou Almighty Lord of hosts,
my Sovereign and my God.
5 How blest are they in thy house
forever give thee praise.
Blest are all those strength thou art,
in whose heart are thy ways.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | How lovely is thy dwelling-place |
| Title: | How lovely is thy dwelling place |
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 CM |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1997 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | God: King; Grace; Longing for God and Christ (3 more...) |
| Source: | Paraphrase, Scottish Psalter 1650,alt. |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HARINGTON |
| Composer: | Henry Harington, 1727-1816 |
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 CM |
| Key: | D Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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