https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JuSAqLBjAM&pp=ygUZc3Rvcnkgb2YgaGFuZGVsJ3MgbWVzc2lhaA%3D%3D
I recommend the link above. I got it from a post a few years ago.
Hallelujah Chorus--The Berlin Radio Symphony (1963)
The lyrics, translated from German, are slightly different from the English lyrics.
Hallelujah!
For God the Lord rules all-powerfully.
Hallelujah!
The kingdom of the Lord will come;
The kingdom of the Lord and his Christ.
And he shall rule always and for eternity.
Lord of lords,
For always and eternally,
The God of the world.
Lord of lords, the God of the world,
For always and eternally,
Lord of lords, the God of the world,
And he will rule always and for eternity.
Hallelujah!
One of the most fun pieces to sing when the in a large chorus.
I have always enjoyed Kaylee Rogers singing the Christmas version:
Interestingly, the Hallelujah Chorus tends to be sung more often during the Christmas season. Since satan wasn’t fully defeated until resurrection Sunday, I always found it unusual that the Hallelujah Chorus was most often sung at Christmas time.
For the same reason, I also found that Christmas is the massive celebration that it is, as compared to Easter. Of course, celebrating the birth of a baby is much easier to ‘sell’ to the secular world, than the celebration of a suffering servant, heavily tortured and executed in the most excruciating way. For me, I always thought that Easter was the most important celebration because until Jesus allowed Himself to die on the cross, and then took back His life again, salvation was theoretically, still in the balance. As a baby, being both fully God and fully man, He was not in such a position, nor capable of making such a decision.
Of course, with the execution and resurrection of the Lord, we have to confront ourselves and our ACTIONS. Celebrating the birth of a baby, does not require self reflection, is therefore easier to celebrate.
We sang this in junior high public school for a Christmas concert.
Imagine that.
Be careful out there, all y’all Easter worshippers!