Lo, in the wilderness a voice (Ludvig Mathias Lindeman)
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- (Posted 2021-04-04) CPDL #63906:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-04). Score information: A4, 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- (Posted 2021-04-04) CPDL #63905:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-04-04). Score information: A4, 1 page, 98 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Lo, in the wilderness a voice
Composer: Ludvig Mathias Lindeman
Tune: Lindeman
Lyricist: Percy Dearmer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 87. 87. 887
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 384
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Original text and translations
English text
Lo, in the wilderness a voice
‘Make straight the way’ is crying:
when men are turning from the light,
and hope and love seem dying,
the prophet comes to make us clean:
‘There standeth one you have not seen,
whose voice you are denying’.
God, give us grace to hearken now
to those who come to warn us;
give sight and strength, that we may kill
the vices that have torn us;
lest love professed should disappear
in creeds of hate, contempt, and fear,
that crush and overturn us.
When from the vineyard cruel men
cast out the heavenly powers,
and Christendom denies its Lord,
the world in ruin cowers.
Now come, O God, in thy great might!
unchanged, unchanging is thy right,
unswayed thy justice towers.