The Bible as Music

Psalm 24:7-10

⁷ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

⁸ Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

⁹ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

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Lift up your heads, O ye gates (chorus), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Coro Costanzo Porta, Orchestra Cremona Antiqua

SHEET MUSIC: Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

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Psalm 16:10

¹⁰ For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

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But thou didst not leave His soul in Hell (air), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Magdalene Minnaar, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

SHEET MUSIC

Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

FREE SHEET MUSIC

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Isaiah 53:8b

⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

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He was cut off out of the land of the living (recitative), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Magdalene Minnaar, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

SHEET MUSIC

Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

FREE SHEET MUSIC

Choral Public Domain Library

Lamentations 1:12b

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (recitative), from Messiah (1741) by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Performed by Levy Sekgapane, Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover

SHEET MUSIC

Messiah, Edited by Watkins Shaw, Novello Handel Edition. 257 pages

FREE SHEET MUSIC

Choral Public Domain Library