How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
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w&m: Michael Joncas, 1979

[Refrain]
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord God of Hosts!

[Verse 1]
My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord,
my heart and my flesh cry out;
even the sparrow may find a home
the swallow a nest for her young;
your altars, my king and my God!

[Refrain]

[Verse 2]
How happy are they who may dwell in your courts,
how happy when you are their strength;
though they might go thru the valley of death,
they make it a place of springs.
Your first rain will bring it to life.

[Refrain]

[Verse 3]
O Lord of Hosts, hear my cry,
and hearken, O God of Jacob;
one day in your house is worth much more to me
than ten thousand anywhere else;
the Lord is my sun and my shield!

[Refrain]