What is the source for “How lovely is Thy dwelling place,” the text Brahms uses in the fourth movement of German Requiem?

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The question asks for the source of the line 'How lovely is Thy dwelling place,' which Johannes Brahms quotes in the fourth movement of the German Requiem.
First, note that the provided data shows the question and the supposed correct answer as 'Book of Psalms,' but there are no answer options supplied to critique or compare.
In a typical context, the phrase in German is 'Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen,' which is a translation of a psalm verse. The most commonly cited source for this line in Brahms’s Requiem is the Book of Psalms, specifically Psalm 84 in many English translations, where the longing for the temple or dwelling place of God is a central motif.
If one were to consider potential alternative sources, e.g., other biblical books or liturgical texts, they would not align with the well-established text Brahms set in the fourth movement, which firmly draws from the Psalter.
Without the actual list of answer options, we cannot enumerate or debunk specific distractors, but we can frame the core reasoning: the line in question is traditionally traced to the Psalms, not to other biblical or apocryphal sources.
Additionally, it is worth noting that Psalm numbering and phrasing can vary slightly between Hebrew/Septuagint traditions and English translations, which might lead to small textual differences, yet the essential source—the Psalms—remains the same. If options included the Psalms, it would be the historically supported choice; if they included phrases from different books, those would be inaccurate in relation to Brahms's fourth movement.

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