Redeemer
Alleluia, Sing To Jesus!
- Words:
- William Chatterton Dix, 1867.
- Music:
- 'HyFrydol' Rowland H. Prichard, 1830.
- Setting:
- "The English Hymnal", 1906.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Alleluia! sing to Jesus!His the scepter, His the throne.Alleluia! His the triumph,His the victory alone.Hark! the songs of peaceful Zionthunder like a mighty flood.Jesus out of every nationhas redeemed us by His blood.
- 2Alleluia! not as orphansare we left in sorrow now;Alleluia! He is near us,faith believes, nor questions how;Though the cloud from sight received Himwhen the forty days were o'erShall our hearts forget His promise,"I am with you evermore"?
- 3Alleluia! bread of angels,Thou on earth our food, our stay;Alleluia! here the sinfulflee to Thee from day to day:Intercessor, Friend of sinners,Earth's Redeemer, plead for me,Where the songs of all the sinlesssweep across the crystal sea.
- 4Alleluia!King eternal,Thee the Lord of lords we own;Alleluia! born of Mary,Earth Thy footstool,Heaven Thy throne:Thou within the veil hast entered, robed in flesh our great High Priest;Thou on earth both priest and victim in the Eucharistic feast.
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Topics
- Atonement
- Blood
- Bread (of Life/Daily Bread)
- Cloud
- Easter
- Friendship
- God, As King
- God, Faithfulness of
- God, Love of
- Gospel
- Gratitude
- Jesus
- Lord's Supper
- Praise, Son
- Priest/Priestly Roles
- Promises (see also Gospel)
- Sacrifice
- Salvation
- Sinners
- Solitude (with God even when alone)
- Throne (also see God - As King)
- Victory
- Worship
In the hymnals
- Written in 1866, the words are in 240 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, HyFrydol, is in 728 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.