Now is the Hour of Rejoicing

Lift up your hearts with rejoicing

Lowly ones, rise up and see

Hope springing up in the desert

A garden befitting a king

Wastelands now blossom in splendor

Shining with beauty and grace

Lands once thought lost and forsaken

Rise up in glorious praise!

Praise to the Father, praise to the Son

praise to the Spirit: one God who is love!

Come, sing with joy, for now is the time

Now is the hour of rejoicing!

Rivers shall run in the dry lands

Streams of abundance shall flow

Waves of great joy for the journey

And leading the exiled back home

Weary legs leap up to greet them

Burdened hearts laugh with delight

Mourning turns swiftly to dancing

No sorrow, no tears for the night!

Praise to the Father, praise to the Son

praise to the Spirit: one God who is love!

Come, sing with joy, for now is the time

Now is the hour of rejoicing!

Open the pathway before him

The Holy One promised of old

Emmanuel, God who is with us

The savior whom prophets foretold

Make wide and straight the king's highway

Lift up your heads, mighty gates

Cry out with joy and with gladness

All you who sleep come awake!

Praise to the Father, praise to the Son

praise to the Spirit: one God who is love!

Come, sing with joy, for now is the time

Now is the hour of rejoicing!

Praise to the Father, praise to the Son

praise to the Spirit: one God who is love!

Come, sing with joy, for now is the time

Now is the hour of rejoicing!

Now is the hour, the hour of rejoicing!