Text: The Lord is my light (HWV 255)

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

  1. Sinfonia
     
  2. Air for tenor
    The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear.
    The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid?
     
  3. Chorus
    Though an host of men were laid against me,
    yet shall my heart not be afraid.
    Though there rose up war against me, yet will I put my trust in him.
     
  4. Chorus
    I will offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness.
    I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord.
     
  5. Chorus
    For who is God but the Lord: or who hath any strength except the Lord?
    The earth trembled and quaked:
    the very foundations also of the hills shook and were removed.
    He cast forth lightnings and gave his thunder and destroyed them.
     
  6. Chorus
    They are brought down and fall’n: but we are risen.
     
  7. Chorus
    O praise the Lord with me: and let us magnify his name together.
     
  8. Air for tenor
    The Lord is my strength and my shield,
    my heart has trusted in him, and I am helped:
    therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him.
     
  9. Air for soprano
    It is the Lord that ruleth the sea, the Lord sitteth above the water-flood:
    and the Lord remaineth a king forever.
     
  10. Chorus
    Sing praises unto the Lord, O ye saints of his:
    and give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his holiness.
    I will remember thy name from one generation to another.
    Therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee,
    world without end. Amen.