CPWI Hymnal ‎#73

73. Joy to the world! The Lord is come

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 Saviour reigns;
let us our songs employ;
while fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy,
repeat, 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,
far as the curse is found,
far as, 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,
and wonders of his love,
and wonders, and wonders of his love.

Text Information

• First Line: Joy to the world! The Lord is come
• Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 (alt.)
• Meter: C.M. with Repeat
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2010
• Scripture:
  Psalm 98
• Topic: Hymns for the Church Year: Christmas

Tune Information

• Name: ANTIOCH
• Composer: George Frideric Handel, 1685-1759
• Adapter: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872
• Meter: C.M. with Repeat
• Key: D Major
• Source: Collected by T. Hawkes, 18th-19th century