How lovely is Thy dwelling place
by The Scottish Psalter (1615)
Representative text
As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 62.
Verse 1
How lovely is Thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts to me! The tabernacles of Thy grace How pleasant, Lord, they be!
Verse 2
My thirsty soul longs ardently, Yea, faints Thy courts to see; My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for Thee.
Verse 3
Behold the sparrow findeth out A house where-in to rest; The swallow also, for herself Provided hath a nest.
Verse 4
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.
Verse 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