{"id":17589,"date":"2022-12-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2022-12-03T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T00:34:19","slug":"advent-singing-comfort-comfort-ye-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17589","title":{"rendered":"Advent Singing: Comfort, Comfort Ye My People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comfort, Comfort Now My People (GENEVAN 47)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2wKFZBYUjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Comfort, Comfort Ye My People&#8221; performed by the choir of First Plymouth Church of Lincoln, Nebraska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This marvelous advent hymn comes from the German Lutheran Johannes Olearius (1611-1684), originally as Tr\u00f6stet, tr\u00f6stet meine Lieben\u00a0for St. John Baptist&#8217;s Day (June 24). <a href=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/person\/Olearius_Johann\">John Julian notes<\/a>, &#8220;He was also the compiler of one of the largest and most important German hymn-books of the 17th century.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our words come from Catherine Winkworth&#8217;s English translation in 1863. I&#8217;ve copied the Trinity Hymnal version here. The performance above skips verse two, but it captures the festival spirit of this song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Comfort, comfort ye my people,<br>speak ye peace, thus saith our God;<br>comfort those who sit in darkness,<br>mourning &#8216;neath their sorrow&#8217;s load.<br>Speak ye to Jerusalem<br>of the peace that waits for them;<br>tell her that her sins I cover,<br>and her warfare now is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Yea, her sins our God will pardon,<br>blotting out each dark misdeed;<br>all that well deserved his anger<br>he no more will see or heed.<br>She hath suffered many a day,<br>now her griefs have passed away;<br>God will change her pining sadness<br>into ever-springing gladness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 For the herald&#8217;s voice is crying<br>in the desert far and near,<br>bidding all men to repentance,<br>since the kingdom now is here.<br>O that warning cry obey!<br>Now prepare for God a way;<br>let the valleys rise to meet him,<br>and the hills bow down to greet him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Make ye straight what long was crooked,<br>make the rougher places plain;<br>let your hearts be true and humble,<br>as befits his holy reign.<br>For the glory of the Lord<br>now o&#8217;er earth is shed abroad;<br>and all flesh shall see the token<br>that his word is never broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marvelous advent hymn comes from the German Lutheran Johannes Olearius (1611-1684), originally as Tr\u00f6stet, tr\u00f6stet meine Lieben\u00a0for St. John Baptist&#8217;s Day (June 24). John Julian notes, &#8220;He was also the compiler of one of the largest and most important German hymn-books of the 17th century.&#8221; Our words come from Catherine Winkworth&#8217;s English translation in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advent Singing: Comfort, Comfort Ye My People<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[104,1254,3966],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-advent","tag-hymns","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17590,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions\/17590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}