How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place

Words: Psalm 84 Scottish Psalter, 1650

Tune: Antrim C.M.D. Stephen Pribble, 2002

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   1. How lovely is thy dwelling-place,
         O Lord of hosts, to me!
      The tabernacles of thy grace
         how pleasant, Lord, they be!
      My thirsty soul longs veh'mently,
         yea faints, thy courts to see:
      My very heart and flesh cry out,
         O living God, for thee.

   2. Behold, the sparrow findeth out
         an house wherein to rest;
      The swallow also for herself
         hath purchased a nest;
      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.

   3. Blessed are they in thy house that dwell,
         they ever give thee praise.
      Blessed is the man whose strength thou art,
         in whose heart are thy ways:
      Who passing thorough Baca's vale,
         therein do dig up wells;
      Also the rain that falleth down
         the pools with water fills.

   4. So they from strength unwearied go
         still forward unto strength,
      Until in Zion they appear
         before the Lord at length.
      Lord God of hosts, my prayer hear;
         O Jacob's God, give ear.
      See God our shield, look on the face
         of thine anointed dear.

   5. For in thy courts one day excels
         a thousand; rather in
      My God's house will I keep a door,
         than dwell in tents of sin.
      For God the Lord's a sun and shield:
         he'll grace and glory give;
      And will withhold no good from them
         that uprightly do live.

   6. O thou that art the Lord of hosts,
         that man is truly blest,
      Who by assured confidence
         on thee alone doth rest.
      How lovely is thy dwelling-place,
         O Lord of hosts, to me!
      The tabernacles of thy grace
         how pleasant, Lord, they be!