Happy is he that fears the Lord. I. Watts. [Psalms cxii.] Appeared in his Psalms of David, &c, 1719, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed, "Liberality Rewarded." It is in common use in Great Britain and America; and sometimes as, "Happy the man that fears the Lord," as in the New Congregational Hymn Book, 1859, No. 174.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)