Psalm 83 - How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
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w&m:
   Gelineau Tone: J.G.
   Psalm Tone: C.W.
   Antiphon: A.G.M.
   1963

[Antiphon I - Cantor]
How lovely is your dwelling place,
Lord, God of hosts.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 1]
My soul is longing and yearning,
is yearning for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my soul ring out their joy
to God, the living God.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 2]
The sparrow herself finds a home
and the swallow a nest for her brood;
she lays her young by your altars,
Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 3]
They are happy who dwell in your house,
for ever singing your praise.
They are happy, whose strength is in you,
in whose hearts are the roads to Sion.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 4]
As they go through the Bitter Valley,
they make it a place of springs,
they walk with evergrowing strength.
They will see the God of gods in Sion.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 5]
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer,
give ear, O God of Jacob.
Turn your eyes, O God, our shield,
look on the face of your anointed.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 6]
One day within your courts is
better than a thousand elsewhere.
The threshhold of the house of God
I prefer to the dwellings of the wicked.

[Antiphon I - All]

[Verse 7]
For the Lord God is a rampart, a shield;
he will give us his favour and glory.
The Lord will not refuse any good
to those who walk without blame.

[Antiphon II - All]
Lord, God of hosts,
happy the man who trusts in you.

[Verse 8]
Give praise to the Father Almighty,
to his Son, Jesus Christ, the Lord,
to the Spirit who dwells in our hearts,
both now and for ever.  Amen.

[Antiphon II - All]