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<h2>DEAR CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ALL, REJOICE</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The Father has sent His Son as the Savior of the world.” 1 John 4:14</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_l_u_luther_m_2.jpg" align="right" alt="Martin Luther (1483-1546)" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="122" height="155.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_l_u_luther_m.html" target="_blank">Martin Luther</a>, 1523 (<em>Nun freut euch</em>); translated from German to English by C. G. Haas, 1897.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Nun Freut Euch,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_l_u_luther_m.html" target="_blank">Martin Luther</a>, in Joseph Klug’s <em>Geistliche Lieder</em> (Wittenberg, Germany: 1535) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_n_nunfreut.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Dear Christian people all, rejoice,<br>
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Each soul with joy upraising.<br>
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Pour forth a song with heart and voice,<br>
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With love and gladness singing.<br>
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Give thanks to God, our Lord above,<br>
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Thanks for His miracle of love!<br>
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Dearly He hath redeemed us.</p>
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<p>He spoke to His belovèd Son<br>
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With infinite compassion:<br>
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“Go hence, my heart’s most precious One,<br>
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Be to the lost Salvation;<br>
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Death, his relentless tyrant, stay,<br>
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And bear him from his sins away<br>
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With Thee to live forever!”</p>
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<p>The Son came, saying: “Cling to Me,<br>
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Thy sorrows now are ending;<br>
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Freely I give Myself to thee,<br>
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Thy life with Mine defending;<br>
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For I am thine and thou art Mine,<br>
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And where I am there thou shalt shine,<br>
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The foe shall never reach us.”</p>
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<p>“To heaven again I rise from hence,<br>
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High to my Father soaring,<br>
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The Master there to be, and thence<br>
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My Spirit on thee pouring;<br>
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In every grief to comfort thee,<br>
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And teach thee more and more of Me,<br>
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Into all truth still guiding.”</p>
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<p>“What I have done and taught on earth,<br>
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Do Thou, and teach, none dreading;<br>
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That so God’s kingdom may go forth,<br>
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And His high praise be spreading;<br>
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And guard thee from the words of men,<br>
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Lest the great joy be lost again:<br>
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This my last charge I leave thee.”</p>
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<p>An alternate translation, by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_massie_r.html" target="_blank">Richard Massie</a>:</p>
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<p>Dear Christians, one and all rejoice,<br>
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With exultation springing,<br>
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And with united heart and voice<br>
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And holy rapture singing,<br>
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Proclaim the wonders God hath done,<br>
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How his right arm the victory won;<br>
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Right dearly it hath cost him.</p>
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<p>Fast bound in Satan’s chains I lay,<br>
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Death brooded darkly o’er me;<br>
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Sin was my torment night and day,<br>
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Therein my mother bore me.<br>
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Deeper and deeper still I fell,<br>
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Life was become a living hell,<br>
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So firmly sin possessed me.</p>
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<p>My good works could avail me naught,<br>
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For they with sin were stained;<br>
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Free-will against God’s judgment fought,<br>
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And dead to good remained.<br>
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Grief drove me to despair, and I<br>
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Had nothing left me but to die,<br>
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To hell I fast was sinking.</p>
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<p>God saw, in his eternal grace,<br>
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My sorrow out of measure;<br>
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He thought upon his tenderness-<br>
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To save was his good pleasure.<br>
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He turned to me a Father’s heart-<br>
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Not small the cost-to heal my smart<br>
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He have his best and dearest.</p>
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<p>He spake to His beloved Son:<br>
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’Tis time to take compassion;<br>
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Then go, bright Jewel of My crown,<br>
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And bring to man salvation;<br>
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>From sin and sorrow set him free,<br>
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Slay bitter death for him, that he<br>
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May live with Thee forever.</p>
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<p>The Son delighted to obey,<br>
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And born of virgin mother,<br>
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Awhile on this low earth did stay<br>
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That He might be my Brother.<br>
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His mighty power He hidden bore,<br>
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A servant’s form like mine He wore,<br>
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To bind the devil captive.</p>
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<p>To me He spake: cling fast to Me,<br>
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Thou’lt win a triumph worthy;<br>
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I wholly give myself for thee;<br>
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I strive and wrestle for thee;<br>
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For I am thine, thou Mine also;<br>
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And where I am thou art. The foe<br>
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Shall never more divide us.</p>
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<p>For he shall shed My precious blood,<br>
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Me of My life bereaving;<br>
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All this I suffer for thy good;<br>
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Be steadfast and believing.<br>
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My life from death the day shall win,<br>
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My righteousness shall bear thy sin,<br>
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So art thou blest forever.</p>
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<p>Now to my Father I depart,<br>
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From earth to heaven ascending;<br>
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Thence heavenly wisdom to impart,<br>
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The Holy Spirit sending.<br>
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He shall in trouble comfort thee,<br>
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Teach thee to know and follow me,<br>
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And to the truth conduct thee.</p>
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<p>What I have done and taught, do thou<br>
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To do and teach endeavor;<br>
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So shall my kingdom flourish now,<br>
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And God be praised forever.<br>
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Take heed lest men with base alloy<br>
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The heavenly treasure should destroy.<br>
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This counsel I bequeath thee.</p>
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<p align="center">Deutsch</p>
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