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Handel's "Messiah"

 

Part I

 

Part II

 

Part III

   
 

Handel's "Messiah"

Part II

Chorus

John 1:29

Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.

 

 

Aria (contralto)

Isaiah 53:3; 50:6

He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: he hid not His face from shame and spitting.

 

 

Chorus

Isaiah 53:4-5

Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him.

 

 

Chorus

Isaiah 53:5

And with his stripes we are healed.

 

 

Chorus

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

 

 

Recitative (tenor)

Psalm 22:7

All they that see Him, laugh him to scorn; they shoot out their lips and shake their heads, saying:

 

 

Chorus

Psalm 22:8

He trusted in God that He would deliver him; let Him deliver him if He delight in him.

 

 

Recitative (tenor)

Psalm 19:21

Thy rebuke has 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.

 

 

Aria (tenor)

Lamentations 1:12

Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow.

 

 

Recitative (tenor)

Isaiah 13:8

He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of Thy people was he stricken.

 

 

Aria (tenor)

Psalm 16:10

But thou didst not leave his soul in hell, nor didst thousuffer they Holy One to see corruption.

 

 

Chorus

Psalm 24:7-10

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 in battle, the Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

 

 

Chorus

Psalm 68:11

The Lord gave the Word; great was the company of the preachers.

 

 

Aria (soprano)

Romans 10:15

How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.

 

 

Aria (bass)

Psalm 2:1-2

Why do the nations so furiously rage together? 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.

 

 

Recitative (tenor)

Psalm 2:4

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh him to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision.

 

 

Aria (tenor)

Psalm 2:9

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel.

 

 

Chorus

Revelation 19:6, 11:15, 19:16

Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! The Kingdom of this world is become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; And he shall reign for ever and ever.