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#132 from Lutheran Book of Worship
Come, you faithful, raise the strain
Tune
Gaudeamus Pariter
Metric Index
76 76 D
Key & Modality
F Major
Last uses
No previous uses
Poem Words (five verses)
1.
Come, you faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness!
God has brought his Israel
Into joy from sadness,
Loosed from Pharoah's bitter yoke
Jacob's sons and daughters,
Led them with unmoistened foot
Through the Red Sea waters.
Of triumphant gladness!
God has brought his Israel
Into joy from sadness,
Loosed from Pharoah's bitter yoke
Jacob's sons and daughters,
Led them with unmoistened foot
Through the Red Sea waters.
2.
'Tis the spring of souls today:
Christ has burst his prison,
And from three days' sleep in death
As a sun has risen;
All the winter of our sins,
Long and dark, is flying
From his light, to whom is giv'n
Laud and praise undying.
Christ has burst his prison,
And from three days' sleep in death
As a sun has risen;
All the winter of our sins,
Long and dark, is flying
From his light, to whom is giv'n
Laud and praise undying.
3.
Now the queen of seasons, bright
With the day of splendor,
With the royal feast of feasts
Comes its joy to render;
Comes to gladden faithful hearts
Which with true affection
Welcome in unwearied strain
Jesus' resurrection!
With the day of splendor,
With the royal feast of feasts
Comes its joy to render;
Comes to gladden faithful hearts
Which with true affection
Welcome in unwearied strain
Jesus' resurrection!
4.
For today among the twelve
Christ appeared, bestowing
His deep peace, which evermore
Passes human knowing.
Neither could the gates of death,
Nor the tomb's dark portal,
Nor the watchers, nor the seal,
Hold him as a mortal.
Christ appeared, bestowing
His deep peace, which evermore
Passes human knowing.
Neither could the gates of death,
Nor the tomb's dark portal,
Nor the watchers, nor the seal,
Hold him as a mortal.
5.
Alleluia! Now we cry
To our King immortal,
Who, triumphant, burst the bars
Of the tomb's dark portal.
Come, you faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness!
God has brought his Israel
Into joy from sadness!
To our King immortal,
Who, triumphant, burst the bars
Of the tomb's dark portal.
Come, you faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness!
God has brought his Israel
Into joy from sadness!
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Come, You FaithfulHymn References
Author
John of Damascus c. 696-c. 754
Composer
Johann Horn 1490-1547
Original Language
Greek
Publication Date
1978
Topic
Easter; Easter 2
Translator
John M. Neale 1818-1866 (alt.)
Other Hymns By Tune (in Zack's Database)
#363 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship / Come, you faithful, raise the strain (F Major ) [click to view]#444 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship / Cradling children in his arm (F Major ) [click to view]
#506 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship / The Word of God is source and seed (F Major ) [click to view]
#200 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (F Major ) [click to view]
#237 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / Let us now our voices raise (F Major ) [click to view]
#193 in Lutheran Book of Worship / Cradling children in his arm (F Major ) [click to view]
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