Psalm 20:5: "May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!"
Psalm 118:15-26: "15 Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: 'The right hand of the LORD does valiantly, 16 the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!'
"17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD. 18 The LORD has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
"19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. 20 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. 21 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. 22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
"25 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success!
"26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD."
Colossians 3:16: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
Hebrews 13:14: "For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come."
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1 Rejoice, O pilgrim throng!Rejoice, give thanks, and sing;Your festal banner wave on high,The cross of Christ your king.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!2 With voice as full and strongAs ocean's surging praise,Send forth the sturdy hymns of old,The psalms of ancient days.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!3 With all the angel choirs,With all the saints on earthPour out the strains of joy and bliss,True rapture, noblest mirth.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!4 Yet on and onward still,With hymn and chant and song,Through gate and porch and columned aisleThe hallowed pathways throng.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!5 Still lift your standard high,Still march in firm array,As pilgrims through the darkness wendTill dawns the golden day.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!6 At last the march shall end;The wearied ones shall rest;The pilgrims find their home at last,Jerusalem the blest.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!7 Praise Him who reigns on high,The Lord whom we adore:The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,One God forevermore.Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice, give thanks, and sing!
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Psalm 20:5 is the basis for the lines "Your festal banner wave on high" in the first verse and "Still lift your standard high" in the fifth, and "shout for joy" is combined with part of Psalm 118:24 in the hymn's multiple calls to "Rejoice" in the first verse and refrain.
The passages from Psalm 118 and Colossians 3 both mention thankfulness and singing, and these appear most clearly in "give thanks, and sing" in the first verse and refrain. The second through fourth verses continue the theme of singing. The lines "Send forth the sturdy hymns of old, / The psalms of ancient days" in the second verse and "With hymn and chant and song" in the fourth echo "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" from Colossians 3:16.
Hebrews 13:14 is alluded to in the pilgrim imagery, primarily in the sixth verse, although also in the first ("O pilgrim throng!") and the fifth ("As pilgrims through the darkness wend").
