How Lovely, Lord of Hosts, to Me

lyricist: The Psalter, 1912
Composer: Joseph Barnby, 1872

How love­ly

Lord of Hosts

to me

The ta­ber­na­cles of Thy grace;

O how I long

yea

faint to see

Thy hal­lowed courts

Thy dwell­ing place;

For Thee my heart and spir­it sigh

For Thee

O liv­ing God

I cry.

The spar­row has her place of rest;

The swal­low

through Thy kind­ly care

Has found where she may build her nest

And brood her young in safe­ty there;

Thy al­tars as my rest I sing

O Lord of Hosts

my God

my king.

Blest they who in Thy house ab­ide

They still to Thee shall ren­der praise;

Blest they who in Thy strength con­fide

And in whose hearts are Zi­on’s ways;

Though pass­ing through the vale of tears

Like springs of joy Thy grace ap­pears.

Advancing still from strength to strength

They on­ward go where saints have trod

Till ev­ery one ap­pears at length

In Zi­on’s courts be­fore his God;

Jehovah

God of Hosts

give ear

Our fa­thers’ God

in mer­cy hear.

Upon us look

O God

our shield

The face of Thy an­oint­ed see;

A thou­sand oth­er days can yield

No glad­ness like one day with Thee;

Though on­ly at Thy door I wait

No tents of sin give joy so great.

Jehovah

God

our shield and sun

Will grace and glo­ry sure­ly give;

No good will He with­hold from one

Who in His sight shall right­ly live;

O Lord of Hosts

most blest is he

Who puts his stead­fast trust in Thee.

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