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Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us.
Messiah (1741)
I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.
I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.
Horatio Townsend An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (1852)
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Messiah (1741)
Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!
The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Messiah (1741)
You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.
Richard Alexander Streatfeild Handel (2005)
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is the righteous Saviour, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen
Messiah (1741)
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
Messiah (1741)
Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Messiah (1741)
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by his blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing, and honour, glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Amen.
Messiah (1741)
Why do the nations so furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed.
Messiah (1741)
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Messiah (1741)