Hallelujah, Our God Reigns

Passion opens with creation imagery before turning to the cross — "behold the mighty breath of God, it calmed the seas and hung the stars, that very breath inside our hearts." The image reaches back to Genesis 1:2's account of God's breath, or spirit, moving over the waters at the very start, the same breath now placed inside the singer rather than only over creation generally.

"All that has breath, come praise the Lord" quotes Psalm 150:6 almost word for word — the psalm's final verse, closing out the entire book of Psalms with the widest possible invitation to worship. "What kind of king would die for us?" keeps the second verse from staying abstract about the cross; it's posed as an actual question, one the chorus's repeated "Hallelujah" functions as the answer to rather than avoiding.