The Whole Booke of Psalmes ‎#47b

47b. Quam dilecta

1 How pleasant is thy dwelling place!
O Lord of hoasts to me!
The Tabernacles of thy grace,
how pleasant Lord they be!
2 My soule doth long full sore to go
into thy courts abroad:
My heart doth lust, my flesh also,
is thee the living God.

3 The sparrowes find a roome to rest,
and save themselves from wrong:
The eke the swallow hath a nest,
wherein to keep her young.
4 These birds full nigh thine Altar may
have place to sit and sing:
O Lord of hoasts, thou art O sau.
my God and eke my King.

5 O they be blessed that may dwell
within thy house alwaies
For they all times thy facts do tell,
and ever give thee praise.
6 Yea happy sure likewise are they
whose stay and strength thou art:
Which to thy house do mind the way,
And seek it in their heart.

7 As they go through the vale of teares,
they dig up fountaines still:
That as a spring it all appearse,
and thou their pits dost fill.
8 From strength to strength they go full fast,
no faintnesse there shall be:
And so the God of gods at last
in Sion they do see.

9 O Lord of hoasts to me give heed,
and heare when I do pray:
And let it through thine eares proceed,
O Jacob's God, I say.
10 O Lord our shield, of thy good grace,
regard, and so draw neare:
Regard, I say, behold the face
of thine anointed deare.

11 For why? within thy Courts one day
is better to abide,
Than other where to keep or stay,
a thousand daies beside.
12 Much rather had I keep a doore
within the house of God,
Than in the tents of wickednesse
to settle my abode.

13 For God the Lord light and defence,
will grace and worship give:
And no good thing will he with-hold
from them that purely live.
14 O Lord of hoasts that man is blest,
and happy sure is he,
That is perswaded in his brest,
to trust all times in thee.

Text Information

• First Line: How pleasant is thy dwelling place!
• Title: Quam dilecta
• Author: J. H.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 84
• Notes: Sing as Psalm 77

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