Common Praise (1998) ‎#154

154. Joy to the World

1 Joy to the world! The Lord is come:
let earth receive the King;
let every heart prepare him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the world! The Saviour reigns:
let us glad songs employ,
while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

3 No more let wrongs and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
he comes to make his blessings flow
far as our sin is found,
far as our sin is found,
far as, far as our sin is found.

4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of his righteousness
and wonders of his love,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders, wonders of his love.

Text Information

• First Line: Joy to the world! The Lord is come
• Title: Joy to the World
• Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) (alt.)
• Meter: CM with repeat
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Scripture:
  2 Samuel 23:1-7
  ;
  Psalm 96
  ;
  Isaiah 9:1-7
  ;
  Isaiah 35:1-10
  ;
  Isaiah 65:17-25
  ;
  Isaiah 66:10-14
  ;
  Malachi 3:1-4
  ;
  Luke 1:26-38
• Topic: Christmas; Reign of Christ; Epiphany

Tune Information

• Name: ANTIOCH
• Adapter: George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
• Harmonizer: Lowell Mason (1792-1872)
• Composer: William Holford (1835)
• Meter: CM with repeat
• Source: Voce de Melodia, 1835