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Alleluia

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 467 hymnals Topics: Alleluia Lyrics: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Used With Tune: ALLELUIA SOUTH AFRICA Text Sources: Hebrew traditional; הָי לוְלַה) Hallelujah) (Mediterranean), ca. 4th c. BC; Translit. Greek, ἀλληλούϊα (Alleluia) (Mediterranean), ca. 3rd c. BC

All Creatures of Our God and King

Author: Francis of Assisi; William H. Draper Meter: 8.8.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 267 hymnals Topics: Alleluias Lyrics: 1 All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice with us and sing: alleluia, alleluia! O burning sun with golden beam, and shining moon with silver gleam, O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 2 O rushing wind so wild and strong, white clouds that sail in heaven along, alleluia, alleluia! New rising dawn, in praise rejoice, you lights of evening, find a voice: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 3 Cool flowing water, pure and clear, make music for your Lord to hear, alleluia, alleluia! Fierce fire, so masterful and bright providing us with warmth and light, O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 4 Earth ever fertile, day by day bring forth your blessings on our way; alleluia, alleluia! All flowers and fruits that in you grow, let them his glory also show: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! 5 People and nations, take your part; sing praise to God with all your heart: alleluia, alleluia! Let all things their Creator bless and worship him in lowliness: O praise him, O praise him, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Scripture: Job 12:7-10 Used With Tune: LASST UNS ERFREUEN

I Will Extol You, O My God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Alleluias Lyrics: 1 I will extol you, O my God, and praise you, O my King; yes, every day and evermore your praises I will sing. Great is the LORD, our mighty God, and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable, above all glory raised. 2 Each generation to the next shall testimony bear, and to your praise, from age to age, your wondrous acts declare. Upon your glorious majesty and honor I will dwell, and all your grand and glorious works and greatness I will tell. 3 Your mighty acts and glorious deeds we shall with awe confess and sing of your great goodness and your perfect righteousness. Most gracious and compassionate is God, who reigns above; his wrath is ever slow to rise, unbounded is his love. Scripture: Psalm 145:1-8 Used With Tune: NOEL Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

Humble Praises, Holy Jesus

Author: Emily R. Brink; Anonymous Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 71 hymnals Topics: Alleluias Refrain First Line: Alleluia, alleluia Used With Tune: VESPER HYMN

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Author: Christopher Wordsworth Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 219 hymnals Topics: Alleluias First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise Lyrics: 1 Alleluia, alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise. Sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise. He who on the cross a victim for the world's salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. 2 Alleluia, Christ is risen! Death at last has met defeat. See the ancient powers of evil in confusion and retreat. Once he died and once was buried; now he lives forevermore Jesus Christ, the world's Redeemer, whom we worship and adore. 3 Christ is risen, Christ the firstfruits of the holy harvest field, which will all its full abundance at his second coming yield. Then the golden ears of harvest will their heads before him wave, ripened by his glorious sunshine from the furrows of the grave. 4 Alleluia, alleluia! Glory be to God on high; alleluia! to the Savior, who has won the victory; alleluia! to the Spirit, fount of love and sanctity: alleluia, alleluia! to the triune Majesty. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15 Used With Tune: EBENEZER

I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748; John Wesley, 1703-1791 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 527 hymnals Topics: Alleluias Lyrics: 1 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, and when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my noblest powers; my days of praise are never past while life and thought and being last or immortality endures. 2 Happy are those whose hopes rely on God the Lord, who made the sky, and earth, the sea, the night and day; God's truth forever stands secure, he keeps his promise to the poor, and none who seeks is turned away. 3 The Lord gives eyesight to the blind, he calms and heals the troubled mind, and sends the wounded conscience peace. God helps the stranger in distress, the widow and the fatherless, and grants the prisoner glad release. 4 I'll praise you while you lend me breath, and, when my voice is lost in death, praise shall employ my noblest powers; my days of praise are never past while life and thought and being last or immortality endures. Scripture: Psalm 146 Used With Tune: OLD 113TH

When in Our Music God Is Glorified

Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 84 hymnals Topics: Alleluias Lyrics: 1 When in our music God is glorified, and adoration leaves no room for pride, it is as though the whole creation cried, "Alleluia!" 2 How often, making music, we have found a new dimension in the world of sound, as worship moved us to a more profound alleluia! 3 So has the church, in liturgy and song, in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, borne witness to the truth in every tongue: alleluia! 4 And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night when utmost evil strove against the Light? Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight: alleluia! 5 Let every instrument be tuned for praise! Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! And may God give us faith to sing always, "Alleluia!" Scripture: Psalm 150 Used With Tune: ENGELBERG

The Strife Is O’er

Author: Francis Pott Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluia Appears in 500 hymnals Topics: Alleluia First Line: The strife is o’er, the battle done Lyrics: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 1 The strife is o’er, the battle done, the victory of life is won. The song of triumph has begun: Alleluia! 2 The pow’rs of death have done their worst, but Christ their legions has dispersed. Let shouts of holy joy outburst: Alleluia! 3 The three sad days have quickly sped. He rises glorious from the dead. All glory to our risen Head! Alleluia! 4 Christ, by your wounds on Calvary, from death’s dread sting your servants free, that we may live eternally: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Scripture: Matthew 28:1-10 Used With Tune: VICTORY Text Sources: anon., “Finita iam sunt praelia,” Symphonia Sirenum Selectarum (present-day Germany), 1695; trans. Francis Pott (England), Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common Prayer, 1861

Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

Author: Charles Wesley Appears in 493 hymnals Topics: Alleluia Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! Who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia! Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia! 2 Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia! Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia! Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia! Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia! 3 Sing we to our God above Alleluia! Praise eternal as his love, Alleluia! Praise him, all ye heavenly host, Alleluia! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia! Used With Tune: [Jesus Christ is risen today] Text Sources: From the Latin

Thine Is the Glory (Tuya es la gloria)

Author: Edmond Budry, 1854-1932; R. Birch Hoyle, 1875-1939; Marjorie J. de Caudill, b. 1908 Meter: 5.5.6.5.6.5.6.5 with refrain Appears in 111 hymnals Topics: Alleluias Refrain First Line: This is the glory (Tuya es la gloria) Scripture: Isaiah 28:8 Used With Tune: JUDAS MACCABAEUS