Worship in Song ‎#69

69. Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming

1 Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
From tender stem has sprung!
Of Jesse's lineage coming
As men of old have sung.
It came, a floweret bright,
Amid the cold of winter,
When half-spent was the night.

2 Isaiah did foretell it,
The Rose I have in mind.
With Mary we behold it,
The virgin mother kind.
To show God's love aright
She bore to us a Savior,
When half-spent was the night.

Text Information

• First Line: Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
• Title: Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
• Translator: Theodore Baker
• Publication Date: 1996
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 11:1-2
• Topic: Christmas; God's Love; Story of Jesus; Nativity; Winter
• Source: 15th century German

Tune Information

• Name: EST IST EIN ROS' ENTSPRUNGEN
• Harmonizer: Michael Praetorius
• Key: F Major
• Source: Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1599; Harm.: Musae Stonae, VI, 1609