I was glad when they said- when they said unto me,
"Let us go to the house of the Lord.
Let us enter within Salem's gates with his tribes
To give thanks to the name of the Lord."
Jerusalem, all they that love thee shall prosper,
Their joy shall forever increase-
So, because of the house of the Lord, I will seek
All thy good and will pray for thy peace.
I am called by thy name and am formed for thy glory
And precious, my Lord, in thy sight.
Thou hast loved me and kept me- the sun shall not smite me
By day, nor the moon by the night.
For death cannot celebrate God and the grave
Cannot praise thee. By this, I now know-
At the last day, when Christ shall return, I shall rise.
Thou hast promised this, Lord: it is so.
My Jesus, the living, the living shall praise thee
As I do this day, for thou hast,
In love to my soul from the pit of corruption,
Delivered it when thou didst cast
My sins all my sins far behind thee and buried
In waters no being can ford
And, therefore, we will sing these songs all the days
Of our life in the house of the Lord.