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Nahum
Bible References
| Genesis 3:8–15, 17–19 | Adam and Eve in the garden |
| Numbers 24:15–19 | Out of Jacob |
| 2 Samuel 7:11–16 | David’s dynasty will last for ever |
| Isaiah 7:14–15 | Behold a virgin shall conceive |
| Isaiah 9:2–7 | For unto us a child is born |
| Isaiah 11:1–9 | The rod of Jesse |
| Isaiah 40:1–11 | The voice in the wilderness |
| Isaiah 49:1–18 | A light to the nations |
| Daniel 7:13–14 | To him was given dominion |
| Micah 4:1–7 | Swords into ploughshares |
| Micah 5:2–5 | Out of Bethlehem |
| Malachi 3:1–4 | The messenger of God |
| Malachi 4:1–6 | The sun of righteousness |
| Matthew 1:18–25 | Joseph and Mary |
| Matthew 2:1–12 | The three wise men |
| Matthew 2:13–18 | The flight into Egypt |
| Luke 1:5–25 | Zechariah and Elizabeth |
| Luke 1:26–38 | The Annunciation |
| Luke 1:39–56 | The Magnificat |
| Luke 1:67–79 | Zechariah’s song of thanksgiving |
| Luke 2:1–7 | No room at the inn |
| Luke 2:8–20 | The shepherds and the angels |
| Luke 2:25–38 | Simeon and Anna |
| John 1:1–14 | In the beginning was the Word |
| John 3:16–21 | God so loved the world |
| John 14:1–13 | I am the way |
| 2 Corinthians 8:1–9 | The grace of God |
| Galatians 4:4–6 | When the fullness of time had come |
| Philippians 2:5–11 | Jesus Christ is Lord |
| Colossians 1:15–23 | The firstborn of all creation |
| 1 Timothy 3:14–16 | The mystery of our religion |
| Titus 2:11–3:8 | Declare these things |
| Hebrews 1:1–2:4 | God has spoken |
| 1 John 1:1–14 | The Word of life |
| 1 John 4:7–21 | God is love |
This passage, from Genesis 3:8–15, 17–19, describes the result of humanity’s disobedience. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the outcome was separation from God. The birth of Christ, and his death on the cross, has made a new relationship with God possible. These verses make up the first lesson of the traditional Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, which is broadcast from King’s College, Cambridge each Christmas Eve.
They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ He said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.’ He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?’ The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.’ Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent tricked me, and I ate.’ The LORD God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.’
And to the man he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded “You shall not eat of it,” cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’
This carol is a traditional choice for the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge and was originally included as a memorial to one of the chapel’s directors of music, Boris Ord (1897–1961), who provided the musical setting. The carol remains Ord’s only published composition. The carol was first recorded in a fifteenth-century manuscript, which also produced ‘Lullay, my liking’.
Adam lay ybounden,
Bounden in a bond;
Four thousand winter
Thought he not too long.
All for an apple,
An apple that he took,
As clerkes finden
Written in their book.
Ne had the apple taken been,
The apple taken been,
Ne had never our Lady
Abeen heavene queen.
Blessed be the time
That apple taken was;
Therefore we moun singen:
Deo gracias! Deo gracias! Deo gracias!
Anonymous
All my heart this night rejoices
Paul Gerhardt wrote this carol as a hymn-writer and preacher in the German parish of Luebben. The uplifting tone of the carol is particularly poignant when considered in light of the events in Gerhardt’s own life at the time – he had been expelled from his previous pastorate on political grounds and was still grieving the deaths of his wife and four of his five children.
All my heart this night rejoices
As I hear
Far and near
Sweetest angel voices,
‘Christ is born,’ Their choirs are singing
Till the air
Ev’rywhere
Now with joy is ringing.
Forth today the Conqueror goeth,
Who the foe,
Sin and woe,
Death and hell, o’erthroweth.
God is man, man to deliver;
His dear Son
Now is one
With