Psalm 84 in full. Tune: Harrington

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Scottish Psalter
Psalm 84: 1-12 of 12
"How lovely is thy dwelling-place, O LORD of hosts, to me!"
Tune: Harrington
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondences. They are more like visual cross-references.
image: Sparrows and swallows in God's house.
Source: CC0 1.0 Universal: https://archive.org/details/psalmsinging1650

For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
PSALM 84 C.M.

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 veh’mently,
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 purchasèd 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.

4 Bless’d are they in thy house that dwell,
they ever give thee praise.
5 Bless’d is the man whose strength thou art,
in whose heart are thy ways:

6 Who passing thorough Baca’s vale,
therein do dig up wells;
Also the rain that falleth down
the pools with water fills.

7 So they from strength unwearied go
still forward unto strength,
Until in Zion they appear
before the Lord at length.

8 LORD God of hosts, my prayèr hear;
O Jacob’s God, give ear.
9 See God our shield, look on the face
of thine anointed dear.

10 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.

11 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.

12 O thou that art the LORD of hosts,
that man is truly blessed,
Who by assured confidence
on thee alone doth rest.

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