Lift Up Your Heads

Lift Up Your Heads

Text written in 1642 by Georg Weissel (1590-1635), translated in 1855 by Catherine Winkworth 

Sung to the tune WAREHAM, composed in 1738 by William Knapp (1698-1768)

Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.

John 4:42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

Revelation 19:6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah!

For our Lord God Almighty reigns."

V. 1 Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates!

Behold the King of glory waits;

The King of kings is drawing near,

The Savior of the world is here.

Leviticus 8:9 Then he placed the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the sacred emblem, on the front of it, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Isaiah 45:21 Declare what is to be, present it—let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past?

Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.

Hebrews 13:6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”

V. 2 The Lord is just, a helper tried;

Mercy is ever at His side;

His kingly crown is holiness,

His scepter, pity in distress.

V. 3 O blest the land, the city blest,

Where Christ the Ruler is confessed!

O happy hearts and happy homes

To whom this King in triumph comes!

1 Corinthians 3:16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

V. 4 Fling wide the portals of your heart;

Make it a temple, set apart

From earthly use for heaven's employ, 

Adorned with prayer, and love, and joy.

Ephesians 3:16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.

V. 5 Redeemer, come; I open wide

My heart to Thee; here, Lord, abide.

Let me Thy inner presence feel,

Thy grace and love in me reveal.