#441: Oh, Happy Day When We Shall Stand

Melody is this one, and again, the last line is just a repeat of the fourth.

The middle verses have some stretch rhymes: come/home, Lord/prepared (more interesting than Lord/Word, but also...what), flood/good, peace/grace. Maybe I should start a tag for "translation by committee" i.e. no one wants to take responsibility for how it turned out. ;)

The image of a flood of "joy and love and peace" and also "good and blessedness and grace" is interesting; the use of water in the flood is connected with other aquatic Bible stories in the baptism liturgy.

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