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How Lovely Shines The Morning Star [#HowLovelyShines #TheMorningStar #MorningStar]

Song based on the Bible verses:
Psalm 45
My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 
You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
3 
Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,
With Your glory and Your majesty.
4 
And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
5 
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;
The peoples fall under You.
6 
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 
You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
8 
All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
9 
Kings’ daughters are among Your honorable women;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
10 
Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline your ear;
Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
11 
So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
12 
And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
The rich among the people will seek your favor.
13 
The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven with gold.
14 
She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
15 
With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King’s palace.
16 
Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
17 
I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.

Jeremiah 33:14-16
14 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:
15 
‘In those days and at that time
I will cause to grow up to David
A Branch of righteousness;
He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
16 
In those days Judah will be saved,
And Jerusalem will dwell safely.
And this is the name by which she will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’

Ephesians 1:3-14
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Revelation 22:16
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Song written by:
Original in English: Philipp Nicolai [August 10, 1556, Arolsen, Germany – October 26, 1608, Hamburg, Germany]

1
How lovely shines the Morning Star
The nations see and hail afar
The light in Judah shining
Thou David’s Son of Jacob’s race
My bridegroom and my King of grace
For Thee my heart is pining
Lowly holy
Great and glorious
Thou victorious
Prince of graces
Filling all the heav’nly places

2
Though circled by the hosts on high
He deigned to cast a pitying eye
Upon His helpless creature
The whole creation’s head and Lord
By highest seraphim adored
Assumed our very nature
Jesus grant us
Through thy merit
To inherit
Thy salvation
Hear O hear our supplication

3
Now richly to my waiting heart
O thou my God deign to impart
The grace of love undying
In thy blest body let me be
E’en as the branch is in the tree
Thy life my life supplying
Sighing crying
For the savor
Of thy favor
Resting never
Till I rest in thee forever

4
Thou mighty Father in thy Son
Didst love me ere thou hadst begun
This ancient world’s foundation
Thy Son hath made a friend of me
And when in spirit Him I see
I joy in tribulation
What bliss is this
He that liveth
To me giveth
Life forever
Nothing me from Him can sever

5
Rejoice ye heav’ns; thou earth reply
With praise ye sinners fill the sky
For this His incarnation
Incarnate God put forth Thy pow’r
Ride on ride on great conqueror
till all know Thy salvation
Amen Amen
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Praise be given
Evermore by earth and heaven

How Lovely Shines The Morning Star [#HowLovelyShines #TheMorningStar #MorningStar]

How Lovely Shines The Morning Star [#HowLovelyShines #TheMorningStar #MorningStar]