Every now and then I get it into my head to try to write a hymn - or at least new words for an old hymn tune. This time I've written a hymn - based on part of this week's (Advent 3C) lectionary reading from Zephaniah 3:14 - 20. It's sung to the hymn tune Beecher by John Zundel. He wrote this tune as a setting for Charles Wesley's popular hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.
In Our Midst the King of Heaven
Sing aloud, O Zion’s daughter,
Shout for joy, O Israel.
Let us with the temple choir
sing for God, our King is here.
In our midst the King of Heaven
now proclaims that we are free.
And we shout in exultation,
God has turned our shame to praise.
God, with us, is now rejoicing
singing songs of festal joy.
God has loved us and restored us;
he has brought us safely home.
In our midst the King of Heaven
now proclaims that we are free.
And we’ll sing with him forever
Hallelujah and amen.
Shout for joy, O Israel.
Let us with the temple choir
sing for God, our King is here.
In our midst the King of Heaven
now proclaims that we are free.
And we shout in exultation,
God has turned our shame to praise.
God, with us, is now rejoicing
singing songs of festal joy.
God has loved us and restored us;
he has brought us safely home.
In our midst the King of Heaven
now proclaims that we are free.
And we’ll sing with him forever
Hallelujah and amen.
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