PART I
Introduction( Elijah): As God the Lord of Israel liveth Overture Chorus( The People): Help, Lord! Wilt Thou quite destroy us? Duet and Chorus( The People, Two Women): Lord, bow Thine ear to our prayer! Recitative( Obadiah): Ye people, rend your hearts and not your garments Aria( Obadiah):“ If with all your hearts ye truly seek me” Chorus( The People): Yet doth the Lord see it not Recitative( An Angel): Elijah! Get thee hence, Elijah! Double Quartet( Angels): For He shall give His angels charge over thee Recitative( An Angel): Now Cherith’ s brook is dried up, Elijah Recitative, Air, and Duet( The Widow and Elijah): What have I to do with thee, O man of God? Chorus: Blessed are the men who fear Him, they ever walk in the ways of peace. Recitative( Elijah and King Ahab) and Chorus: As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth before whom I stand Chorus( Priests of Baal): Baal, we cry to thee Recitative( Elijah) and Chorus( Priests of Baal): Call him louder! For he is a god Chorus: Hear our cry, O Baal! Recitative( Elijah) and Chorus( Priests of Baal): Call him louder! He heareth not Chorus: Hear and answer Baal! Aria( Elijah): Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, this day let it be known that thou art God Quartet( Angels): Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee. Recitative( Elijah) and Chorus( The People): O Thou who makest Thine angels spirits Chorus: The fire descends from heav’ n! Aria( Elijah): Is not His word like a fire and like a fire that breaketh the rock Arioso( Alto): Woe unto them who forsake Him! Recitative( Obadiah, Elijah, The Boy) and Chorus( The People): O man of God, help thy people! Chorus: Open the heavens and send us relief Chorus( The People): Thanks be to God
PART II
Aria( Soprano): Hear ye, Israel; hear what the Lord speaketh Chorus:“ Be not afraid,” saith God the Lord Recitative( Elijah and The Queen) and Chorus: The Lord hath exalted thee from among the people Chorus: Woe to him! He shall perish Recitative( Elijah and Obadiah): Man of God, now let my words be precious in thy sight. Aria( Elijah): It is enough! O Lord, now take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers Recitative( Tenor): See now, he sleepeth beneath a juniper tree Trio( Angels): Lift thine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh help.
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