How Lovely is your Dwelling Place [Complete Hymn with Lyrics]

The hymn entitled ‘How Lovely is your Dwelling Place‘ is one of the popular English hymns which is used in Christian communities during worship. Catholic faithful use this hymn as one of the Communion Hymns for Mass and other liturgical celebrations. You will find below the lyrics of this hymn.

How Lovely is your Dwelling Place Lyrics (Key F 2/4)

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Ant 1: (Obligatory before verse 1)

How lovely is your dwelling place O Lord of hosts.

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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.

2. The sparrow herself finds a home

And the swallow a nest for her brood.

She lays her young by your altars,

God of hosts, my King and my God.

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