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| Text: | Joy to the World |
| Author: | Isaac Watts |
| Tune: | RICHMOND |
| Adapter: | Samuel Webbe Jr. |
| Composer: | Thomas Haweis |
| 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.
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.
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.
4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of his righteousness
and 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 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
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| Topic: | Jesus Christ: Ascension and Reign |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | RICHMOND |
| Composer: | Thomas Haweis (1792 c.) |
| Adapter: | Samuel Webbe Jr. (1808) |
| Meter: | CM |
| Key: | F Major |
| Notes: | (alternate tune: ANTIOCH, 134) |
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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