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How Beauteous Are Their Feet
Author: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 712 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7 Lyrics: 1 How beauteous are their feet
who stand on Zion's hill,
who bring salvation on their tongues
and words of peace reveal!
2 How welcome is their voice,
how sweet the tidings are!
Zion, behold thy Saviour King;
he reigns and triumphs here.
3 How happy are our ears
that hear this joyful sound,
which seers and rulers waited for
and sought, but never found.
4 How blessed are our eyes
that see this heavenly light!
Prophets and saints desired it long,
but died without the sight.
5 The sentinels in song
their tuneful notes employ;
Jerusalem breaks forth in hymns
and deserts sing for joy.
6 The glory of the Lord
shines through the earth abroad:
let every nation now behold
their Saviour and their God. Topics: Call and Vocation; Advent; Salvation/Redemption Used With Tune: VENICE
How Beauteous Are Their Feet
Jesus, where’er your people meet
Author: Willam Cowper, 1731-1800 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 515 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Lyrics: 1 Jesus, where'er your people meet
there they behold your mercy seat,
where'er they seek you, you are found
and every place is hallowed ground.
2 For you, within no walls confined,
are present in the humble mind;
such ever bring you where they come,
and, going, take your to their home.
3 Dear Shepherd of your chosen few,
your former mercies here renew;
here to our waiting hearts proclaim
the sweetness of your saving name.
4 Here may we prove the power of prayer
to strengthen faith and sweeten care,
to teach our faint desires to rise,
and bring all heaven before our eyes.
5 Lord, we are few, but you are near,
your arm can save, your ear can hear;
O rend the heavens, come quickly down,
and make a thousand hearts your own. Topics: Dedication of Church Buildgin; Fellowship in the Church; Invocation; Longing for God; Mercy of God; Mission/Sending; Name/s of Jesus; People of God; Prayer; Worship Gathering Used With Tune: WAREHAM
Jesus, where’er your people meet
O Word of God Incarnate
Author: William W. How, 1823-1897 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 487 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 Lyrics: 1 O Word of God incarnate,
O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth unchanged, unchanging,
O Light of our dark sky:
we praise you for the radiance
that from the hallowed page,
a lantern to our footsteps,
shines on from age to age.
2 The Church, from her dear Master,
received the gift divine,
and still that light is lifted
on all the earth to shine.
It is the chart and compass
that, all life's voyage through,
'mid mists and rocks and quicksands,
still guides, O Christ, to you.
3 O make your Church, dear Savior,
a lamp of burnished gold,
to bear before the nations
your true light as of old;
teach us, your wandering pilgrims,
by this our path to trace,
till, clouds and darkness ended,
we see you face to face!
Used With Tune: MUNICH
O Word of God Incarnate
Hail to the Brightness
Author: Thomas Hastings Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 461 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 First Line: Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning! Lyrics: 1 Hail to the brightness of Zion’s glad morning!
Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain!
Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning;
Zion in triumph begins her mild reign.
2 Hail to the brightness of Zion’s glad morning!
Long by the prophets of Israel foretold;
Hail to the millions from bondage returning!
Gentiles and Jews the blest vision behold.
3 Lo, in the desert rich flowers are springing,
Streams ever copious are gliding along;
Loud from the mountaintops echoes are ringing,
Wastes rise in verdure, and mingle in song.
4 See, from all lands, from the isles of the ocean,
Praise to the Savior ascending on high;
Fallen the engines of war and commotion;
Shouts of salvation are rending the sky. Used With Tune: WESLEY Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Hail_to_the_Brightness); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/h/a/hailtoth.htm); The Gospel Trumpet Company, Truth in Song, 1907 (15)
Hail to the Brightness
God, Whose Almighty Word
Author: John Marriott, 1780-1825 Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 446 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7 Topics: Healing; Jesus Christ, Light; Light; Mission; Trinity; Trust Used With Tune: MOSCOW
God, Whose Almighty Word
O'er the gloomy hills of darkness
Author: William Williams Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 411 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 Lyrics: 1 O'er the gloomy hills of darkness,
Cheered by no celestial ray,
Sun of Righteousness, arising,
Bring the bright, the glorious day;
Send the gospel
To the earth's remotest bounds.
2 Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness,
Grant them, Lord, the glorious light;
And from eastern coast to western
May the morning chase the night,
And redemption,
Freely purchased win the day.
3 Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel,
Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting, wide dominions
Multiply and still increase;
Sway thy sceptre,
Saviour, all the world around.
Amen. Topics: The Church Missions; The Church Growth of; Gospel Triumph of; Missions Used With Tune: CORONAE
O'er the gloomy hills of darkness
Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
Author: John of Damascus,; John Mason Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 380 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 First Line: Come, you faithful raise the strain Lyrics: 1 Come, you faithful, raise the strain
of triumphant gladness!
God has brought forth Israel
into joy from sadness,
loosed from Pharaoh’s bitter yoke
Jacob’s sons and daughters;
led them with unmoistened foot
through the Red Sea waters.
2 ’Tis the spring of souls today:
Christ has burst his prison,
and from three days’ sleep in death
as a sun has risen.
All the winter of our sins,
long and dark, is flying
from the Light, to whom we give
laud and praise undying.
3 Now the queen of seasons, bright
with the day of splendor,
with the royal feast of feasts
comes its joy to render;
comes to glad Jerusalem,
who with true affection
welcomes in unwearied strains
Jesus’ resurrection!
4 Neither could the gates of death,
nor the tomb’s dark portal,
nor the watchers, nor the seal
hold you as a mortal:
but today, among your own,
you appear, bestowing
your deep peace, which evermore
passes human knowing.
Topics: Christian Year Easter Vigil; Christian Year Resurrection/Easter; Christian Year Reign of Christ; Freedom; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Joy; Christian Year Easter Used With Tune: ST. KEVIN
Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
Join all the glorious names
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 336 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-8 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Son - His Praise Used With Tune: WATERSTOCK
Join all the glorious names
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Author: John H. Hopkins, Jr., 1820-1891 Meter: 8.8.8.6 with refrain Appears in 315 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 Refrain First Line: O star of wonder, star of night Lyrics: 1 We three kings of Orient are,
bearing gifts we traverse afar,
field and fountain, moor and mountain,
following yonder star.
Refrain:
O star of wonder, star of night,
star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding,
guide us to thy perfect light.
2 Born a king on Bethlehem’s plain,
gold I bring to crown him again,
King forever, ceasing never
over us all to reign. [Refrain]
3 Frankincense to offer have I,
incense owns a deity nigh;
prayer and praising, voices raising,
worshipping God on high. [Refrain]
4 Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume
breathes a life of gathering gloom:
sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
sealed in the stone cold tomb. [Refrain]
5 Glorious now behold him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice;
Alleluia! Alleluia!
sounds through the earth and skies. [Refrain] Used With Tune: KINGS OF ORIENT
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
Author: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 269 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7 Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
hearts unfold like flowers before thee,
opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
drive the dark of doubt away;
giver of immortal gladness,
fill us with the light of day.
2 All thy works with joy surround thee,
earth and heaven reflect thy rays,
stars and angels sing around thee,
center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
flowery meadow, flashing sea,
chanting bird and flowing fountain
call us to rejoice in thee.
3 Thou art giving and forgiving,
ever blessing, ever blest,
well-spring of the joy of living,
ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father and our Mother,
all who live in love are thine;
teach us how to love each other,
lift us to the joy divine. Topics: Creation; Creation; Family; God, maternal images; Love; Marriage; Praise of God Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
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