Dwelling Delight

Tune: Monks Gate

('He who would valiant be')

Psalm 84 v.1-9

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How amiable, lovely

Your dwelling place be

O Lord of hosts, my soul

Longs, my being whole

For your courts, residence

To spend my days there hence

My flesh, my heart, cries out

To you God, no doubt

Even sparrow has found

There a nesting ground

Where she may lay her young

Where your praises sung

Blessed are they who dwell in

Your house, praise still begin

Blessed they whose strength in you

Is, and your ways true

They pass through Baca's* vale (*vale of weeping)

Make it without fail

Make weeping into well

Tears refresh, they tell

They go from strength to strength

Walk through the breadth and length

Of your sure dwelling place

Of mercy and grace

O Lord God, hear my prayer

We know you are there

Behold, O God, our shield

You all power wield

And look upon the face

Of your anointed, trace

Us too in Christ your Son

The anointed one