Hymn · Psalm 84

True Blessedness

WOODBIRD · 7.6.7.6.D · words from The Psalter, 1912 · music German, 17th century

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1.Lord God of Hosts, in mercy
My supplication hear;
Almighty and all-faithful,
Our fathers' God, give ear;
Our shield and great defender,
No longer hide Thy face,
But look upon Thy servant,
Anointed by Thy grace.

2.In Thy blest courts to worship,
My God, a single day
Is better than a thousand
While far from Thee I stray;
Tho' in a lowly station,
the service of my Lord
I choose above all pleasures
That sinful ways afford.

3.A sun and shield forever
Is God, the Lord Most High;
To those who walk uprightly
No good will He deny;
His saints, His grace receiving,
Shall soon His glory see;
O Lord of Hosts, most blessed
Are they that trust in Thee.

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AURELIA — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
EWING — Alexander C. Ewing
PASSION CHORALE — Hans Leo Hassler
TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM — 13th Century spring carol; first published in the Swedish Piae Cantones
WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN — Johann Steuerlein

Other words for this tune

O Day of Rest and Gladness — Christopher Wordsworth
The Good Shepherd — The Psalter, 1912
Commemoration and Praise — The Psalter, 1912
Delight in Church Ordinances — The Psalter, 1912
Gentle Mary Laid Her Child — Joseph S. Cook
Hosanna, Loud Hosanna — Jennette Threlfall
In Heavenly Love Abiding — Anna Laetitia Waring
Jerusalem the Golden — Bernard of Cluny
Lead On, O King Eternal — Ernest W. Shurtleff
O Jesus, I Have Promised — John Ernest Bode
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded — Bernard of Clairvaux
O Word of God Incarnate — William Walsham How
Of The Father's Love Begotten — Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
Peril and Prayer — The Psalter, 1912
Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers — Laurentius Laurenti
Sin and Forgiveness — The Psalter, 1912
Sing to the Lord of Harvest — John S. B. Monsell
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus — George Duffield
The Church's One Foundation — Samuel John Stone
The Dominion of Jesus Christ — The Psalter, 1912
The Sands of Time Are Sinking — Anne Ross Cousin
Trust in the Mercy of God — The Psalter, 1912

Same meter but needs editorial underlay: ANGEL'S STORY, DIVINUM MYSTERIUM, ELLACOMBE, LANCASHIRE, LLANGLOFFAN, MEIRIONYDD, MUNICH, RUTHERFORD, WEBB.

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