{"id":6981,"date":"2017-08-14T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:39:34","slug":"698-how-lovely-is-thy-dwelling-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/698-how-lovely-is-thy-dwelling-place\/","title":{"rendered":"698 &#8211; How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Psalm 84, R.S.V<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How lovely is thy dwelling place,<br \/>\nO Lord of hosts!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>My soul longs, yea, faints\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>for the courts of the Lord;\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>my heart and flesh sing for joy\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>to the living God.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even the sparrow finds a home,<br \/>\nand the swallow a nest for herself,<br \/>\nwhere she may lay her young,<br \/>\nat thy altars, 0 Lord of hosts,<br \/>\nmy King and my God.<br \/>\nBlessed are those who dwell in thy house,<br \/>\never singing thy praise!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a day in thy courts is better\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>than a thousand elsewhere.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I would rather be a doorkeeper<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>in the house of my God<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>than dwell in the tents of wickedness.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the Lord God is a sun and shield;<br \/>\nhe bestows favor and honor.<br \/>\nNo good thing does the Lord withhold<br \/>\nfrom those who walk uprightly.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>O Lord of hosts,<br \/>\nblessed is the man who trusts in thee!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 84, R.S.V How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yea, faints\u00a0 for the courts of the Lord;\u00a0 my heart and flesh sing for joy\u00a0 to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, 0 Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! For a day in thy courts is better\u00a0 than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36,159,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-601-700","category-adoration-and-praise","category-psalm","category-scripture-readings","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}