Hymn
The Pleasure of Public Worship
How pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet th' assemblies of the saints.
Blest are the souls that find a place
Within the temple of thy grace;
There they behold thy gentle rays,
And seek thy face and learn thy praise.
Blest are the men whose hearts are set
To find the way to Zion's gate;
God is their strength; and thro' the road
They lean upon their helper, God.
The Pleasure of Public Worship — Text from Christ in Song, 1908. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/the-pleasure-of-public-worship
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote The Pleasure of Public Worship?
The words of The Pleasure of Public Worship were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1908. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including The Divine Perfections and Divine Protection.
Is The Pleasure of Public Worship public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from Christ in Song, published in 1908. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the metre of The Pleasure of Public Worship?
The Pleasure of Public Worship is in Long Metre (8.8.8.8). Hymns in the same metre can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Longing after God; or The Love of God Better than Life, The Glory of Christ, and Power of the Gospel and Awake, My Tongue.