Text: Isaiah 62:10-12
Language: English
Ensemble: SATB (div.)
Accompaniment: a cappella
Genre: General Sacred
Duration: 2.0 minutes
Page Count: 7
Catalog Number: NWC-125
Available from J. W. Pepper.
Note:
Go Through the Gates is for SATB (div.) a cappella choir, on the text from Isaiah 62:10-12 "Go through the gates, prepare ye the way of the people." The opening declamatory march-like setting gives way to a more pensive reflection on the text. Useful as an Introit or short anthem for Advent, the Christmas season, or part of a seasonal concert.
Text:
Go through, go through the gates;
prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway;
lift up a standard for the people. Behold, thy salvation cometh;
behold, his reward is with him. And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord.
The Lord hath proclaimed unto the world, Thy salvation cometh.
Alleluia.
Isaiah 62:10-12