How Good and Pleasant Is the Sight

How good and pleasant is the sight
When brethren make it their delight
To dwell in blest accord;
Such love is like anointing oil
That consecrates for holy toil
The servants of the Lord.

Such love in peace and joy distils,
As o’er the slopes of Hermon’s hills
Refreshing dew descends;
The Lord commands His blessing there,
And they that walk in love shall share
In life that never ends.

How good and pleasant is the sight
When brethren make it their delight
To dwell in blest accord;
The Lord commands His blessing there,
And they that walk in love shall share
In life that never ends.

Author: Unknown

Year: 1912

This is a metrical paraphrase of Psalm 133. The English text first appeared in the 1912 Psalter (United Presbyterian Church of North America). No individual author is credited in standard hymnals; it is treated as a traditional or committee-produced versification. Some later sources attribute similar renderings to John Barnard (1752) or Isaac Watts, but the wording here matches the 1912 version.