The First Movement: Be Strong, Fear Not

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1 1 The King of Glory KJV TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO.4 HCD31856 MUSASHINO ACADEMIA MUSICA, KÁLMÁN BERKES, CONDUCTING Recording at I-tunes Search 1812, Flower Waltz, Kálmán Berkes To Laszlo and Elizabeth The First Movement: Be Strong, Fear Not (Isaiah 40:1-5) [1.06] Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the Lord s hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low (< >) and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. (vs.8-11) [2.27] The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever. O Zion, that brings good tidings, get up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up, be not afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God! [2.57] Behold, the Lord God will come with a strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. [4.33] He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. (vs.13-15) [4.51] Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counselor, has taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge and showed to him the way of understanding? (vs.17-20) [5.10] All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity. To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare unto him? The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold and casts silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.

2 2 (vs.28-31) [5.46] Have you not known? Have you not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He gives power to the faint, and to them that have no might, he increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint. (vs.35:4-6) [6.29] Strengthen the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong. Fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense will he come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing. (vs.53:1-7, 11) [9.11] Who has believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. [10.06] The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. [10.33] He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, (sf) and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, (sf) so he opens not his mouth. [13.01] He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.

3 3 (Malachi 3:1-3) [13.13] Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me, and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in. Behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner s fire. And he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. (Isaiah 9:6-7) [14.00] For unto us a child is born; unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order and establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this. (Psalm 24:1-3, 7-10) [16.27] The earth is the Lord s and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates. Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, he is the King of Glory! The Second Movement: O Lord, My Strength (Psalm 22:1-8) [.42] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not, and in the night season, and am not silent. But you are holy, who inhabits the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you did deliver them. They cried to you and were delivered. They trusted in you and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people.

4 4 [2.27] All they that see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him. Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. (vs.13-19) They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death. [3.54] For dogs have encompassed me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots on my vesture. Be not far from me, O Lord, O my strength, haste to help me. (Luke 22:1-5) [5.36] Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover, and the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. Judas communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him unto them, and they were glad and covenanted to give him money. (vs.48, 52-54) Jesus said, Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss? Then they brought him into the high priest s house, and Peter followed afar off. (Luke 23:13-14, 18) [6.02] Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, said, You have brought this man to me as one that perverteth the people, and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things wherof you accuse him. And they all cried, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas! (vs.26-28) As they led Jesus away, they laid hold upon Simon, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. There followed him a great company of people and of women which also bewailed and lamented him. Jesus, turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

5 5 (vs.32-34, 36-43) [7.07] And there were also two other malefactors, led with him to be put to death. When they had come to the place, which is called, Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors; one on the right hand and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots. [7.54] The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, said, If you be the king of the Jews, save yourself. The superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, This Is the King of the Jews. One of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If you be Christ, save yourself and us. But the other answered and rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation? And we, indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing amiss. And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to you, today shalt you be with me in paradise. (vs.44-47) [9.00] And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit, and having said this, he gave up the ghost. Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. fine

6 6 The Third Movement: He That Sent Me is With Me (I.Cor.15:50-58) [.00] Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. [.20] Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. [.38] For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. [.59] Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? [1.18] The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. [1.36] Therefore, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (Hebrews 1:1-5) [1.52] God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days, spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. [2.33] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. [2.56] For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? (John 8:26, 28-29, 31-32) [3.11] Jesus said, I have many things to say and to judge of you, but he that sent me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. [3.42] And he that sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, for I do always those things that please him. If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (Isaiah 52:7,9-10) [5.37] How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation, that says to Zion, your God reigns! fine

7 7 The Fourth Movement: Looking to Jesus (Psalm 27:14) [.18] Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. (Hebrews 11:1,3,6) [1.33] Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 12:1-3,12) [2.24] Seeing we also are encompassed about with so great cloud of witnesses; let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. [3.55] Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. (Hebrews 13:8,15-16) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (Romans 10:8,9,10,13,17) [5.49] The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart, that is, the word of faith, which we preach, that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto rightiousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. So then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. fine Read Next: The Waltz of the Flowers