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How lovely is thy dwelling-place

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 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, Yea faints, thy courts to see: My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out An house wherein to rest; The swallow also for herself Hath purchased a nest; 4 Even 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. 6 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 84:1-5 Used With Tune: HARINGTON (RETIREMENT)

God is our refuge and our strength

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 52 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 God is our refuge and our strength, In straits a present aid; Therefore, although the earth remove, We will not be afraid: 2 Though hills amidst the seas be cast; Though waters roaring make, And troubled be; yea, though the hills By swelling seas do shake. 3 A river is, whose streams make glad The city of our God; The holy place, wherein the Lord Most high hath his abode. 4 God in the midst of her doth dwell; Nothing shall her remove; God unto her an helper will, And that right early, prove. 5 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 46:1-5 Used With Tune: STROUDWATER

Lord Jesus, be thou with us now

Author: Edith Florence Boyle Macalister, 1873-1950 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: Lord Jesus, be thou with us now, As in thy house in prayer we bow; And when we sing, and when we pray, Help us to mean the words we say, Help us to listen to thy word, And keep our thoughts from wandering, Lord. Used With Tune: SURREY (CAREY'S)

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation

Author: Joachim Neander, 1650-80; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 398 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation; O my soul, praise him, for he is thy health and salvation; All ye who hear, Now to his temple draw near, Join me in glad adoration. 2 Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth, Shieldeth thee gently from harm, or when fainting sustaineth; Hast thou not seen How thy heart's wishes have been Granted in what he ordaineth? 3 Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee; Surely his goodness and mercy here daily attend thee; Ponder anew What the Almighty can do, Who with his love doth befriend thee. 4 Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him! All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him! Let the Amen Sound from his people again: Gladly for aye we adore him. Scripture: Psalm 103 Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN (HAST DU DENN, JESU)

Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens; Thy truth doth reach the clouds: Thy justice is like mountains great; Thy judgments deep as floods: 2 Lord, thou preservest man and beast. How precious is thy grace! Therefore in shadow of thy wings Men’s sons their trust shall place. 3 They with the fatness of thy house Shall be well satisfied; From rivers of thy pleasures thou Wilt drink to them provide. 4 Because of life the fountain pure Remains alone with thee; And in that purest light of thine We clearly light shall see. 5 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 36:5-9 Used With Tune: LONDON NEW

The Lord is King! lift up thy voice

Author: Josiah Conder, 1789-1855 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 257 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 The Lord is King! lift up thy voice, O earth, and all the heavens, rejoice; From world to world the joy shall ring, "The Lord Omnipotent is King!" 2 The Lord is King! who then shall dare Resist his will, distrust his care, Or murmur at his wise decrees, Or doubt his royal promises? 3 The Lord is King! child of the dust, The Judge of all the earth is just; Holy and true are all his ways: Let every creature speak his praise. 4 Come, make your wants, your burdens known; Christ will present them at the throne; For he is at the Father's side, The Man of Love, the Crucified. 5 One Lord, one empire, all secures: He reigns, and life and death are yours. Through earth and heaven one song shall ring, "The Lord Omnipotent is King!" Used With Tune: CHURCH TRIUMPHANT

The Lord's my light and saving health

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of God Lyrics: 1 The Lord’s my light and saving health, Who shall make me dismayed? My life’s strength is the Lord, of whom Then shall I be afraid? 2 Against me though an host encamp, My heart yet fearless is: Though war against me rise, I will Be confident in this. 3 One thing I of the Lord desired, And will seek to obtain, That all days of my life I may Within God’s house remain; 4 That I the beauty of the Lord behold may and admire, And that I in his holy place May reverently enquire. 5 For he in his pavilion shall Me hide in evil days; In secret of his tent me hide, And on a rock me raise. 6 Wait on the Lord, and be thou strong, and he shall strength afford Unto thine heart; yea, do thou wait, I say, upon the Lord. 7 To Father,Son, and Holy Ghost, To God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 27:1 Used With Tune: FARRANT

Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee!

Author: Sarah F. Adams Appears in 2,578 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be-- Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 3 There let the way appear, Steps unto heaven; All that thou sendest me, In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 4 Then, with my waking thoughts Bright with thy praise, Out of my stony griefs, Bethel I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! 5 Or if on joyful wing, Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upward I fly; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee! Scripture: Genesis 28:10-22

Before Jehovah's awesome throne

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748; John Wesley, 1703-91 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 979 hymnals Topics: Approach to God The House of God Lyrics: 1 Before Jehovah’s awesome throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy; Know that the Lord is God alone; He can create, and he destroy. 2 His sovereign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and formed us men; And when like wandering sheep we strayed, He brought us to his fold again. 3 We are his people, we his care,— Our souls and all our mortal frame: What lasting honours shall we rear, Almighty Maker, to thy Name? 4 We’ll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is thy command, Vast as eternity thy love; Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand, When rolling years shall cease to move. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: [All people that on earth do dwell]

Lord, thee my God, I'll early seek

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Approach to God Morning Lyrics: 1 Lord, thee my God, I’ll early seek: My soul doth thirst for thee; My flesh longs in a dry parched land, Wherein no waters be. 2 That I thy power may behold, And brightness of thy face, As I have seen thee heretofore Within thy holy place. 3 Since better is thy love than life, My lips thee praise shall give. I in thy Name will lift my hands, And bless thee while I live. 4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, and is, And shall be evermore. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 63:1-4 Used With Tune: SONG 67 (ST. MATTHIAS)