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Text:Joy to the World!
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:ANTIOCH
Arranger:Lowell Mason
Composer (attributed to):George Frederick Handel

85. Joy to the World!

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 world! the Savior reigns;
Let men 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 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
Meter: 8.6.8.6.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1996
Scripture:
Topic: Children; Christmas; Grace (6 more...)
Source: Psalms of David, 1719, alt.
Tune Information
Name: ANTIOCH
Composer (attributed to): George Frederick Handel
Arranger: Lowell Mason (1836)
Meter: 8.6.8.6.
Key: D Major



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