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133 | Glory to God#134 | 135 |
Text: | Joy to the World |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | ANTIOCH |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason |
Composer (attributed to): | George Frederick Handel |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her 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 earth, the Savior reigns!
Let all their 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 sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
he comes to make his blessings flow
far as the curse is found,
far as the curse is found,
far as, far as the curse 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 | |
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First Line: | Joy to the world, the Lord is come! |
Title: | Joy to the World |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1719, alt.) |
Meter: | CM with repeat |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
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Topic: | Christian Year: Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year: Epiphany; Jesus Christ: Birth |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ANTIOCH |
Composer (attributed to): | George Frederick Handel (1742) |
Arranger: | Lowell Mason (1836) |
Meter: | CM with repeat |
Key: | D Major |
Notes: | (alternate tune: RICHMOND, 266) |
While Isaac Watts did not write this text strictly for Christmas use, he did purposely cast his paraphrase of
Psalm 98:4–9 in Christian terms, titling it “The Messiah’s coming and kingdom.” So “the Lord” here is Jesus
Christ, rather than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Audio recording: | ![]() |