{"id":19520,"date":"2024-04-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19520"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:11:59","slug":"sunday-singing-deck-thyself-my-soul-with-gladness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19520","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness - The Schola Cantorum of St Peter&#039;s in the Loop, Chicago\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t85OLveO6kI?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a devotional hymn from German poet Johann Franck (1618-1677), translated into English by scholar Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will greatly rejoice in the LORD;<br>    my soul shall exult in my God,<br>for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;<br>    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,<br>as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,<br>    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. (Isaiah 61:10 ESV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness,<br>leave the gloomy haunts of sadness;<br>come into the daylight&#8217;s splendour,<br>there with joy thy praises render<br>unto him whose grace unbounded<br>hath this wondrous banquet founded:<br>high o&#8217;er all the heavens he reigneth,<br>yet to dwell with thee he deigneth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Now I sink before thee lowly,<br>filled with joy most deep and holy,<br>as with trembling awe and wonder<br>on thy mighty works I ponder:<br>how, by mystery surrounded,<br>depth no mortal ever sounded,<br>none may dare to pierce unbidden<br>secrets that with thee are hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Sun, who all my life dost brighten,<br>light, who dost my soul enlighten,<br>joy, the sweetest heart e&#8217;er knoweth,<br>fount, whence all my being floweth,<br>at thy feet I cry, my Maker,<br>let me be a fit partaker<br>of this blessed food from heaven,<br>for our good, thy glory, given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Jesus, Bread of Life, I pray thee,<br>let me gladly here obey thee;<br>never to my hurt invited,<br>be thy love with love requited:<br>from this banquet let me measure,<br>Lord, how vast and deep its treasure;<br>through the gifts thou here dost give me,<br>as thy guest in heaven receive me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a devotional hymn from German poet Johann Franck (1618-1677), translated into English by scholar Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878). I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God,for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,as a bridegroom decks himself like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness<\/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":[1254,5147,3966],"class_list":["post-19520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-johann-franck","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\/19520","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=19520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19521,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions\/19521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}