How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place

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PSALM 84: HOW LOVELY IS YOUR

DWELLING PLACE
REFRAIN: Gently ( = ca. 116) 1st time: Cantor, All repeat; thereafter: All
Em Em/D Em7/D
Melody

How love ly is your dwell ing

Keyboard (a tempo)

Em6/C C Am7 B7 Fine

place, O Lord God of Hosts!

Fine

VERSES 1, 2: Cantor/Choir
Em9 Em6 Em9 Em6 F

1. My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my
2. How hap py are they who may dwell in your courts, how hap py when
VERSE 3: Cantor/Choir

3. O Lord of Hosts, hear my cry, and hear ken, O

Text: Based on Psalm 84:2–7, 9, 11–12; Michael Joncas, b. 1951.


Music: Michael Joncas.
Text and music © 1979, OCP. All rights reserved.

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PSALM 84: HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, cont. (2)

Em B7 Em9 Em6

1. flesh cry out; e ven the spar row may


2. you are their strength; though they might go through the

3. God of Ja cob; one day in your house is worth

Em9 Em6 F Em

1. find a home, the swal low a nest for her young;


2. val ley of death, they make it a place of springs.

3. much more to me than ten thou sand an y where else;

F Em B7
D. C.

1. your al tars, my king and my God!


2. Your first rain will bring it to life.
D. C. al fine

3. the Lord is my sun and my shield!


D. C.

rit.

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