There is a house not made with hands

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General information

This is an hymn by Isaac Watts, Hymn 110 of Book 1 of his Hymns and Spiritual Songs, published 1709.

Settings by composers (automated)

Daniel Belknap — Saybrook English SSATBBB
Thomas Clark — There is a house not made with hands English SATB
Ezra Goff — Bedford English SATB

Text and translations

English text

There is a house not made with hands,
Eternal and on high;
And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.

Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolved and fall;
Then, O my soul! with joy obey
Thy heavenly Father's call.

'Tis he, by his almighty grace,
That forms thee fit for heaven;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Has his own Spirit given.

We walk by faith of joys to come,
Faith lives upon his word;
But while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.

'Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,
But we had rather see;
We would be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.