Hosanna

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

Back when we were slaves to Pharaoh

it was God who freedom bought us

All the chariots sent to harry us 

Cast into the Red Sea waters.

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

When the Philistines great champion

Made our armies quake with dread

It was God's great truth a shepherd youth

Could strike Goliath dead.

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

My soul magnifies you savior God, 

my spirit sings your praise.

They'll confess how you have blessed 

me from now 'till the end of days.

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

For me you, whose name is holy,

Have done great and wondrous things

And in every year all those who fear

you know what mercy brings.

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

Your strong arm has scattered proud ones

from their hearts’ imagined height,

Raised the humble but you tumble

mighty rulers in your sight.

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

In you hungry ones find good things

Rich ones leave and do not dine

You do not forget your promise yet

To Abraham’s long line

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory

 

Next year in the holy city

we will gather in your sight

and at this great feast even the least

shall know your saving might

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory 

 

You have been our liberation

From the ancients ‘till our days

Our great Holy One lifts lowly ones

Therefore we sing your praise.

 

Shout Hosanna shout Hosanna

It is you who set us free

And by your design from David's line

Will come our victory

Detroit Lorica

 I'm obviously drawing inspiration from other translations of St. Patrick's Lorica, but I kind of like this, at least for a first draft:

At Waawiyatanong in this hour
I name the Three-In-One and bind
unto myself the heavenly power
that in our God alone we find.

Unto myself I bind today
the power of Word made Flesh, baptized,
killed on the cross, in the tomb laid
raised from the dead, raised to the skies,

Who comes to judge the quick and dead,
whose life gives hope and sets us free,
whose reign breaks forth just as he said:
This power today I bind to me.

I bind unto myself today
the power that comes when Seraphs love,
Archangels serve, Angels obey,
and Cherubs worship God above,

The power gained from our forebears' prayers,
the prophets' words, the apostles' preaching
the witness each confessor bears
the righteous' actions, pure souls' teaching.

I place the power of heaven today,
all fire's strength, the sun's bright glow,
the swift wind blowing on its way,
the flashing lightning, whitest snow,

By God's strong help, aided by grace
The sea's great depth, the hard rocks' starkness,
Even the stable earth I place
Between myself and present darkness.