Christ Is Risen! Let The Earth Sing With Joy!

And if Christ had not risen from the dead,

or have broken the bands of death 

that the grave should have no victory, 

and that death should have no sting, 

there could have been no resurrection.

But there is a resurrection, 

therefore the grave hath no victory, 

and 

the sting of death 

is swallowed up in Christ.

He is the light and the life of the world; 

yea, a light that is endless, 

that can never be darkened; 

yea, and also a life which is endless, 

that there can be no more death. 

Mosiah 16:7–9

 

He Is Risen!

He is risen! He is risen!

Tell it out with joyful voice.

He has burst his three days’ prison;

Let the whole wide earth rejoice.

Death is conquered; man is free.

Christ has won the victory.

Come with high and holy hymning;

Chant our Lord’s triumphant lay.

Not one darksome cloud is dimming

Yonder glorious morning ray,

Breaking o’er the purple east,

Symbol of our Easter feast.

He is risen! He is risen!

He hath opened heaven’s gate.

We are free from sin’s dark prison,

Risen to a holier state.

And a brighter Easter beam

On our longing eyes shall stream.

Text: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818–1895

Music: Joachim Neander, 1650–1680

Isaiah 9:6 KJV

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.

He will swallow up death in victory; 

and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; 

and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: 

for the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 25:8

Thy dead men shall live, 

together with my dead body shall they arise. 

Awake and sing, 

ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, 

and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 26:19

And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; 

and I have drunk out of that bitter cup 

which the Father hath given me, 

and have glorified the Father in taking upon me 

the sins of the world, 

in the which 

I have suffered the will of the Father 

in all things from the beginning.

3 Nephi

He is risen! He is risen!

Tell it out with joyful voice.

He has burst his three days’ prison;

Let the whole wide earth rejoice.

In the morning in the garden

Birds were singing soft and low.

Flowers nodded, grasses whispered,

As if to say, “We know, we know.”

Christ is risen! Christ is risen!

All the earth is glad again.

Christ is risen! Christ is risen!

And all men shall live again.

Mary waited in the garden,

Hoping she would see our Lord.

Then He called her, “Mary, Mary,”

And she knew His quiet word.

Christ is risen! Christ is risen!

All the earth is glad again.

Christ is risen! Christ is risen!

And all men shall live again.

  Easter Song

Mabel Gabbott