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#15 - Joy to the World

Isaac Watts · 1719

English original

Verse 1 Joy to the world; the Lord is come;
Let Earth receive her King;
Let ev’ry heart prepare him room,
And heav’n and nature sing.

Verse 2 Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns;
Our mortal songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy.

Verse 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.

Verse 4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.

Public-domain original lyrics · Hymnary — text and public-domain status.

Four-stanza English text; musical repetitions are not written out. Rights reference.

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