Text: | How lovely is your dwelling-place |
Tune: | HARINGTON |
Composer: | Henry Harrngton, 1727-1816 |
1 How lovely is your dwelling-place,
O Lord of hosts, to me;
my thirsting soul longs eagerly
within your courts to be.
2 Beside your altars, Lord of all,
the swallows find a nest;
happy are those who dwell with you
and praise you without rest,
3 and happy those whose hearts are set
upon the pilgrim ways:
you are the water when they thirst,
their guide towards your face.
4 How blest are they that in your house
for ever give you praise:
one day with you is better spent
than thousands in dark ways.
5 The Lord will hold back no good thing
from those who justly live;
to all who trust, the Lord of hosts
will all his blessings give.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How lovely is your dwelling-place |
Meter: | 86.86 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Anniversary of a Church; Fulfilment; Guidance(5 more...) |
Source: | Scottish Psalter, 1650, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HARINGTON |
Composer: | Henry Harrngton, 1727-1816 (adapt.) |
Meter: | 86.86 |
Key: | D Major |