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Text: | Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers |
Author: | Laurentius Laurenti |
Translator: | Sarah Borthwick Findlater |
Tune: | REJOICE |
Composer: | Johann A. Freylinghausen |
1 Rejoice, rejoice, believers,
and let your lights appear;
the evening is advancing,
And darker night is near.
The bridegroom is arising
and soon is drawing nigh.
Up, pray and watch and wrestle;
at midnight comes the cry.
2 The watchers on the mountain
proclaim the bridegroom near;
go forth as he approaches
with alleluias clear.
The marriage feast is waiting;
The gates wide open stand.
Arise, O heirs of glory;
The bridegroom is at hand.
3 Our hope and expectation,
O Jesus, now appear;
arise, O Sun so longed for,
o'er this benighted sphere.
With hearts and hands uplifted
we look, O Lord, to you
for all the earth's redemption,
creation made anew.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Rejoice, rejoice believers |
Title: | Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers |
Author: | Laurentius Laurenti (1700) |
Translator: | Sarah Borthwick Findlater (1854, alt.) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. Iambic |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Christian year--Advent; Christian year--Return of Christ |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | REJOICE |
Composer: | Johann A. Freylinghausen (1710) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D. Iambic |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | C. Gregor Choralbuch (1784) |
Notes: | 151 I in 1891 Offices of Worship and Hymns |