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Text: | O Lord of Hosts, How Lovely |
Tune: | LLANGLOFFAN |
1 O Lord of Hosts, how lovely
the place where thou dost dwell!
Thy tabernacles holy
in pleasantness excel.
My soul is longing, fainting,
Jehovah's courts to see;
my heart and flesh are crying,
O living God, for thee.
2 Blest who thy house inhabit,
they ever give thee praise;
blest all whom thou dost strengthen,
who love the sacred ways.
So they from strength unwearied
go forward unto strength,
till they appear in Zion
before the Lord at length.
3 O hear, Lord God of Jacob,
to me an answer yield;
the face of thine anointed,
behold, O God, our shield.
One day excels a thousand
if spent thy courts within;
I'll choose thy threshold, rather
than dwell in tents of sin.
4 Our sun and shield, Jehovah,
will grace and glory give;
no good will he deny them
that uprightly do live.
O God of hosts, Jehovah,
how blest is ev'ryone
who confidence reposes
on thee, O Lord, alone.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O Lord of Hosts, how lovely |
Title: | O Lord of Hosts, How Lovely |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Church: The Lord's House; Church: Love for; Longing for Christ and God |
Source: | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Psalter, 1931; alt. 1961 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LLANGLOFFAN |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. |
Key: | g minor |
Source: | Welsh hymn melody; David Evans's Hymnau a Thonau,1865 |