Hallelujah! best and sweetest

Of the hymns of praise above!

Hallelujah! thou repeatest,

Angel-host, these notes of love;

This ye utter,

While your golden harps ye move.

2 Hallelujah! Church victorious,

Join the concert of the sky:

Hallelujah! bright and glorious!

Lift, ye saints, this strain on high!

We, poor exiles,

Join not yet your melody.

3 Hallelujah! strains of gladness

Comfort not the faint and worn;

Hallelujah! sounds of sadness

Best become the heart forlorn;

Our offenses

We with bitter tears must mourn.

4 But our earnest supplication,

Holy God! we raise to thee;

Visit us with thy salvation,

Make us all thy peace to see!

Hallelujah!

Ours at length this strain shall be.