Note 59 — Chapter V
Reading edition
It may be interesting to give the original English words (as sung at Birmingham) of this well-known air.
Adagio.—"Hear ye, Israel; hear what the Lord speaketh: 'Ah! had'st thou heeded my commandments!' He to His people calleth; yet they regard not His voice, nor will they obey His call.
Recit.—Yet to the righteous, saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel;
Allegro.—I, I am he that comforteth, and ye are mine. Wake up, arise, Jerusalem! Say, who art thou that despairest, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker; who hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the earth's foundations? Wake up, arise, Jerusalem!"