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Casting Crowns Liftng Hands - Adonai You Reign on High
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Oct 30, 2026 updated
God of Love - EP album
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Song Meaning
Bowed hearts and raised hands are the whole offering in Nathaniel Bassey's "Casting Crowns (Lifting Hands)," recorded with Lovesong. The opening couplet, "Casting Crowns, lifting hands / Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do," comes around four times before anything else is said, so the gathering itself is defined as worship rather than a prelude to something else.
Then the song settles on a name. "Adonai, Adonai, Adonai / You reign on high" is chanted again and again, with the Hebrew title for Lord carrying the declaration of kingship, and "We will rise, in Your name" answers it with the congregation's resolve. Later the name shifts to "Yahweh," and the repeated "we will rise" ends the song on a firm stance rather than a request.
The crowns of the title recall the elders in Revelation 4:10 who cast theirs before the throne, and the insistence that God reigns on high sits beside Psalm 93:1. The words stay short and chant-like, which makes them easy for a whole room to sing together.
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Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do
Casting Crowns, lifting hands
Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do
Casting Crowns, lifting hands
Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do
Casting Crowns, lifting hands
Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do
Adonai, Adonai, Adonai
You reign on high
We will rise, in Your name
Adonai, You reign on high
Reign on high
Eh You reign on high
Casting Crowns, lifting hands
Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do
Casting Crowns, lifting hands
Bowing hearts, Is all we've come to do
Adonai, Adonai, Adonai
You reign on high
We will rise, in Your name
Adonai, You reign on high
Adonai, Adonai, Adonai
You reign on high
We will rise, in Your name
Adonai, You reign on high
Adonai, Adonai, Adonai
You reign on high
We will rise, in Your name
Adonai, You reign on high
We will rise, in Your name
Adonai, You reign on high
You reign on high
Hmm... Adonai, You reign on high
We will rise, we will rise
In your name, Adonai
We will rise, as we worship
Adonai, You reign on high
We will rise
In the name of Yahweh
We will rise
Adonai, adonai, adonai
You reign on high
@Nathaniel Bassey ft. Lovesong