#380: Hallelujah! Jesus Lives!

[lutheranhymns]

Some shifting use of second person here. In verse 2, we have "why do you weep?" quoting the angels at the empty tomb to the women who were looking for Jesus' body. In verse 3, the narrator addresses their soul: "life eternal waits for you." Which seems an interesting kind of dualism, but actually there are several hymns that do this, going back to the Psalms ("bless the Lord, O my soul!"). And then by the last verse, the humans-to-angels conversation has reversed; the narrator is "us" humans, instructing the angels ("your chorus") to join in praising God.