How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place

by Jeff Rittenhouse   Release year: 2017 


Verse 1

How lovely is your dwelling place
O Lord of Hosts
My soul longs yes it faints
For the courts of the Lord

Verse 1 (continued)

My heart and flesh sing for joy
To the living God, to the living God

Verse 2

Even the sparrow finds a home
And the swallow makes her nest
Where she may offer up her young
At your altars O my King

Verse 2 (continued)

Blessed are they who dwell with you
Ever singing your praise
Ever singing your praise

Verse 3

Blessed are those whose strength is in you
O mighty God
In whose hearts are the highways
To the city of the Lord

Verse 3 (continued)

They will go from strength to strength
And see the King on his throne
And see the King on his throne

Verse 4

One single day in your courts O Lord
Is better than a thousand else by far
I would rather keep your doors
Than dwell with the wicked men

Verse 4 (continued)

For the Lord is a sun and shield
He bestows grace and honor
No good thing does the Lord withhold
From those who walk in his ways

End

How lovely is your dwelling place
O Lord of Hosts

© 1988 Jeff Rittenhouse. Used by permission.

Recorded and produced by Robert Carnacchi, Peter Wilson and members of Ignite, a youth group in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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