Songs for Life ‎#137

137. 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 earth! the Savior reigns:
let all 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!
• Title: Joy to the World!
• Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
• Meter: CM with repeats
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1995
• Scripture:
  Psalm 98
• Topic: Singing God's Story: Christmas / Birth of Christ

Tune Information

• Name: ANTIOCH
• Composer: Lowell Mason (1848)
• Meter: CM with repeats
• Key: D Major