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!