"Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day" (Psalm 81:1-3). "And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them [the Gentiles] witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as He did unto us; and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.... We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they" (Acts 15:8,9,11).
Blow the trumpet! Sing aloud!
Make a joyful noise to God!
Jew and Gentile join the crowd:
Praise the Lord! His work applaud!
We celebrate what God has done
To purify the hearts of those
Who put their trust in God the Son,
Who died to save us and Who rose.
Jew and Gentile, great and least,
And all who come by faith to Christ:
Praise Him in the solemn feast!
Behold the Lamb once sacrificed!
The middle wall is broken down!
Our hearts by faith are purified!
Jew and Gentile join to crown
Our risen Savior glorified.
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