At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 362)
1 At the Lamb’s high feast we sing
Praise to our victorious king,
Who has washed us in the tide
Flowing from his pierced side.
Alleluia!
2 Praise we him, whose love divine
Gives his sacred blood for wine,
Gives his body for the feast-
Christ the victim, Christ the priest.
Alleluia!
3 Where the paschal blood is poured
Death’s dread angel sheathes the sword;
Israel’s hosts triumphant go
Through the wave that drowns the foe.
Alleluia!
4 Praise we Christ, whose blood was shed,
Paschal victim, paschal bread;
With sincerity and love
Eat we manna from above.
Alleluia!
5 Mighty Victim from the sky,
Hell’s fierce pow’rs beneath you lie;
You have conquered in the fight,
You have brought us life and light.
Alleluia!
6 Now no more can death appall,
Now now more the grave enthrall;
You have opened paradise,
And your saints in you shall rise.
Alleluia!
7 Easter triumph, Easter joy!
This alone can sin destroy;
From sin’s pow’r, Lord, set us free,
Newborn souls in you to be.
Alleluia!
8 Father, who the crown shall give,
Savior, by whose death we live,
Spirit, guide through all our days:
Three in One, your name we praise.
Alleluia!
Text: Latin hymn; Music: Bohemian Brethren Kirchengeseng; Public Domain
Devotion
At the Lamb’s high feast, we sing—not for what we have done, but for what Christ has done for us. He is both Victim and Priest, the one who gives himself for us and gathers us to his table. His blood washes us, his body feeds us, his sacrifice frees us, and his love sustains us.
Like Israel in the Exodus, we are delivered not by our own strength but by God’s mercy. Christ’s death is the wave that drowns the foe, and his resurrection is the triumph that leads us through. He is here with us; he feeds us with sincerity and love. And so it is him to whom we lift our hymns of praise. Jesus has defeated death and set us all free. As we share in his feast, we rejoice in the gift of his grace, which sustains us always.
Prayer
Jesus, our Paschal Lamb, nourish us with your life and lead us in your love. Amen.