Psalm 84 from the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded at the 23rd Glasgow Psalmody Recital (1994), used with permission.

1 How lovely is thy dwelling-place, O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant, Lord, they be!

2 My thirsty soul longs veh'mently, yea faints, thy courts to see: My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee.

3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out an house wherein to rest; The swallow also for herself hath purchased a nest;

Ev'n thine own altars,* where she safe her young ones forth may bring, O thou almighty Lord of hosts, who art my God and King.

4 Blessed are they in thy house that dwell, they ever give thee praise. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength thou art, in whose heart are thy ways: