Epiphany Hymn

     Dear God, We Are Your Singers

Dear God, we are your singers on this earth

 we sing of peace, we sing of joy and light

 we bring glad tidings of a Savior’s birth

to all who cry and suffer in the night.

We sing to those afflicted and in grief

 we would lift up the brokenhearted ones

 we sing of love, of hope, and of relief,

of restored lives and blessed innocence.

We sing to those chained in a prison cell

 we sing the ancient prophet’s freedom song

 we sing deliverance from a Satan’s hell

to all the lost who for salvation long.

We sing, we shout for all the world to hear:

 take off your rags now, and put on the new

 for night has ended, and the Lord is near

all that God’s promised will at last come true!

Therefore we sing, from sea to shining sea

 with steadfast faith and with a holy mirth

 let’s clear away the remnants of debris

and let’s begin to build our God’s new earth.

                           text: hjbaron [based on Isaiah 61]

                                    tune: Genevan 124 [ PH 521: God of the Prophets]