How Pleasant, How Divinely Fair
The same words as 3 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
1 word changed · 2 stanzas only in Hymns and Tunes 1876 #12 · 2 stanzas only in Church Hymnal #24
Verse 1
How pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, Thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet th' assemblies of Thy saints.
Verse 1
How pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, Thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet the assemblies of Thy saints.
Verse 2
My flesh would rest in Thine abode,
My panting heart cries out for God;
My God! my King! why should I be
So far from all my joys and Thee?
Verse 2
My flesh would rest in Thine abode,
My panting heart cries out for God;
My God! my King! why should I be
So far from all my joys and Thee?
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Verse 3
The sparrow builds herself a nest
And suffers no remove;
O make me, like the sparrows, blessed
To dwell but where I love.
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Verse 4
To spend one day with Thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days
Of sinful mirth;
A day within Thy courts to be
Is sweeter, Lord, than all the world to me.
Verse 3
Blest are the souls that find a place Within the temple of thy grace; There they behold thy gentler rays, And seek thy face, and learn thy praise.
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Verse 4
Blest are the men whose hearts are set To find the way to Zion's gate; God is their strength; and through the road They lean upon their helper, God.
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