Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#282

282. The Lamb's High Banquet We Await

1. The Lamb's high banquet we await,
In show-white robes of royal state;
And now, the Red Sea's channel past,
To Christ our Prince we sing at last.

2. Upon the altar of the cross,
His body has redeemed our loss;
And tasting of his roseate blood,
Our lives are hid with him in God.

3. Protected in the Paschal night
From the destroying angel's might,
In triumph went the ransomed free
From Pharaoh's cruel tyranny.

4. Now Christ, our Passover, is slain,
The Lamb of God without a stain;
His flesh, the true unleavened bread,
Is freely offered in our stead.

5. O all-sufficient sacrifice!
Beneath him, Hell, defeated lies:
The captives set free by the Lord,
Whose crowns of life have been restored.

6. We praise him, rising from the grave,
From death returning, strong to save;
With his right hand the tyrant chains,
And Paradise for us regains.

Text Information

• First Line: The Lamb's high banquet we await
• Title: The Lamb's High Banquet We Await
• Latin Title: Ad coenam Agni providi
• Translator: J.M. Neale (1851)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Exodus 12:13
• Topic: Ordinary Time: Week 18
• Notes: Text from the Latin “Ad coenam Agni providi,” tr. by Anglican scholar-priest J.M. Neale, from The Hymnal Noted (1851), sts. 3–4 alt. as in Hymns Ancient & Modern (1861).

Tune Information

• Name: AD COENAM AGNI PROVIDI
• Arranger: W.H. Monk (1861)
• Meter: 8.8.8.8
• Incipit: 12123 423
• Key: G Major or modal
• Notes: Plainchant tune Ad coenam Agni providi, adapt. and arr. by English organist W.H. Monk for Hymns Ancient & Modern (1861).