Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
Psalm 100:1
Words: Newburgh Hamilton, 1743. Hamilton wrote these words, adapted from John Milton’s Samson Agonistes, as the libretto for George Handel’s oratorio Samson.
Music: Lowell (Russian) arranged from a Russian tune by Lowell Mason, Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: John H. Wilkins & Richard B. Carter, 1844), page 58 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Alternate Tunes:
If you know where to get a good picture of Hamilton (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound,
To spread your sacred pleasure round;
Awake each voice, and strike each string,
And to the solemn organ sing.
Let all, whom life and breath inspire,
Attend, and join the blissful choir;
But chiefly ye, who know His Word,
Adore, and love, and praise the Lord.