27. Recitativo accompagnato: Tenor All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips and shake their heads, saying. PSALMS 22:7
28. Chorus He trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. PSALMS 22:8
29. Recitativo accompagnato: Tenor Thy rebuke hath broken His heart; He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him. PSALMS 69:21
30. Air: Tenor Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow. LAMENTATIONS 1:12
31. Recitativo accompagnato: Soprano He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgressions of Thy people was He stricken. ISAIAH 53:8
32. Air: Soprano But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption. PSALMS 16:10
33. Chorus Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of glory. PSALMS 24:7 – 10
34. Recitativo: Tenor Unto which of the angels said He at any time: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten thee? HEBREWS 1:5
35. Chorus Let all the angels of God worship Him. HEBREWS 1:6
36. Air: Alto Thou art gone up on high; Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men; yea, even from Thine enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them. PSALMS 68:18
37. Chorus The Lord gave the word, great was the company of the preachers. PSALMS 68:11
38. Air: Soprano How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. ROMANS 10:15
39. Chorus Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world. ROMANS 10:18
40. Air: Bass Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Anointed. PSALMS 2:1-2
41. Chorus Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. PSALMS 2:3
42. Recitativo: Tenor He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision. PSALMS 2:4
43. Air: Tenor Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’ s vessel. PSALMS 2:9
44. Chorus Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. REVELATION 19:6
The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. REVELATION 11:15
Hallelujah! REVELATION 19:16
Part III 45. Air: Soprano I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. JOB 19:25 – 26
For now Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruits of them that sleep. I CORINTHIANS 15:20
46. Chorus Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. I CORINTHIANS 15:21 – 22
47. Recitativo accompagnato: Bass Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. I CORINTHIANS 15:51 – 52
48. Air: Bass The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. I CORINTHIANS 15:52 – 53
49. Recitativo: Alto Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory! I CORINTHIANS 15:54
50. Duet: Alto & Tenor O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. I CORINTHIANS 15:55 – 56
51. Chorus But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I CORINTHIANS 15:57
52. Air: Soprano If God be for us, who can be against us? ROMANS 8:31
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’ s elect? It is God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is at the right hand of God, who makes intercession for us. ROMANS 8:33 – 34
53. Chorus Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honor, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. REVELATION 5:9, 12 – 13
54. Chorus Amen.
Holiday 2016 | Overture 15