Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Monday, May 10, 2021

Messiah: No. 5 Thus saith the Lord of hosts

I've been reading Haggai lately, and last week I happened upon a text that's used in Handel's Messiah.  When I posted my old notes here a couple years ago, I noted Malachi 3:1 near the end of No. 5 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, but the first part of the text is from Haggai 2:6-7:  "6 For thus says the LORD of hosts:  Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.  7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts."