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Isaiah 9:2-8: The race that long in darkness pined
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 218 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-8 First Line: The race that long in darkness pined Lyrics:
The race that long in darkness pined,
have seen a glorious light;
The people dwell in day, who dwelt
in death’s surrounding night.
To hail thy rise, thou better Sun!
the gath’ring nations came,
Joyous, as when the reapers bear
the harvest treasures home.
For thou our burden hast remov’d,
and quelled th’ oppressor’s sway,
Quick as the slaughtered squadrons fell
in Midian’s evil day.
To us a Child of hope is barn;
to us a Son is giv’n;
Him shall the tribes of earth obey,
him all the hosts of heav’n.
His name shall be the Prince of Peace,
for evermore adored,
The Wonderful, the Counsellor,
the great and mighty Lord.
His pow’r increasing still shall spread,
his reign no end shall know;
Justice shall guard his throne above,
and peace abound below.
Isaiah 9:2-8: The race that long in darkness pined
City of God
Author: Dan Schutte, b. 1947 Appears in 13 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-2 First Line: Awake from your slumber Refrain First Line: Let us build the city of God Topics: Seasons and Feasts Epiphany; Brotherhood and Sisterhood; City of God Used With Tune: [Awake from your slumber]
City of God
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
Author: Johann Rist; John Troutbeck Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 57 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Lyrics: Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light,
And usher in the morning;
You shepherds, shudder not with fright,
But hear the angel's warning.
This Child, now weak in infancy,
Our confidence and joy shall be;
The power of Satan breaking,
Our peace eternal making.
Used With Tune: ERMUNTRE DICH
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
The People Who Walked in Darkness
Author: Mary Louise Bringle Meter: 8.8.12.7 with refrain Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7 Refrain First Line: His name is Wonderful, Counselor Topics: Jesus Christ Ascension and Reign; Justice; The Life of the Nations; Jesus Christ Advent Used With Tune: ISAIAH 9
The People Who Walked in Darkness
Brightest and Best of the Stars
Author: Reginald Heber Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 914 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 First Line: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning Lyrics: 1 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
dawn on our darkness and come to our aid;
star of the east, the horizon adorning,
guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
2 What shall we give him, in costly devotion?
Shall we bring incense and offerings divine,
gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean,
myrrh from the forest or gold from the mine?
3 Vainly we offer each lavish oblation,
vainly with gifts would his favor secure;
richer by far is the heart’s adoration,
dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
4 Brightest and best of the stars of the morning,
dawn on our darkness and come to our aid;
star of the east, the horizon adorning,
guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Topics: Epiphany Season Used With Tune: MORNING STAR
Brightest and Best of the Stars
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Author: Edmund H. Sears, 1810-76 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 880 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:4-5 Lyrics: 1 It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to all,
From heav'n's all-gracious king."
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
2 Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heav'nly music floats
O'er all the weary world.
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hov'ring wing,
And ever o'er its babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
3 All you, beneath your heavy load,
By care and guilt bent low,
Who toil along a dreary way
With painful steps and slow:
Look up, for golden is the hour,
Come swiftly on the wing,
The Prince was born to bring you peace;
Of Him the angels sing.
4 For lo, the days have come to pass
By prophets seen of old,
When down into the circling years
Came Christ as was foretold.
His word of peace shall to the earth
God's ancient promise bring,
And all who take this gift will hear
The song the angels sing. Topics: Society Used With Tune: CAROL
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
O little town of Bethlehem
Author: Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) Appears in 855 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 Lyrics: 1 O little town of Bethlehem,
how still we see you lie!
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
the silent stars go by;
yet, in your dark streets shining
the everlasting Light;
the hopes and fears of all the years
are met in you tonight.
2 O morning stars, together
proclaim the holy birth
and praises sing to God the King,
and peace to all on earth.
For Christ is born of Mary;
and, gathered all above,
while mortals sleep, the angels keep
their watch of wondering love.
3 How silently, how silently,
the wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
the blessings of his heaven.
No ear may hear his coming:
but in this world of sin,
where meek souls will receive him, still
the dear Christ enters in.
4 O holy child of Bethlehem,
descend to us, we pray;
cast out our sin, and enter in;
be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
the great glad tidings tell:
O come to us, abide with us,
our Lord Emmanuel. Used With Tune: FOREST GREEN
O little town of Bethlehem
Hymn 13
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 31 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 First Line: The lands that long in darkness lay Lyrics:
The lands that long in darkness lay
Now have beheld a heav'nly light;
Nations that sat in death's cold shade
Are blessed with beams divinely bright.
The virgin's promised Son is born,
Behold th' expected child appear:
What shall his names or titles be?
"The Wonderful, the Counsellor."
[This infant is the mighty God,
Come to be suckled and adored;
Th' eternal Father, Prince of Peace,
The Son of David, and his Lord.]
The government of earth and seas
Upon his shoulders shall be laid;
His wide dominions still increase,
And honors to his name be paid.
Jesus, the holy child, shall sit
High on his father David's throne;
Shall crush his foes beneath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.
Hymn 13
Hark! the herald angels sing
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7.7 D Appears in 1,338 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-8 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Son - Incarnation Used With Tune: BETHLEHEM
Hark! the herald angels sing
Come, Thou long-expected Jesus
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 751 hymnals Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-8 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Son - Second Coming Used With Tune: LEIPSIC
Come, Thou long-expected Jesus
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