Isaac Watts: Collected Lyrics
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Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come

Isaac Watts

“Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come” as printed in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920).

Isaac Watts: Collected Lyrics Text 4 1920 · historical text
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This text comes from The Army and Navy Hymnal, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Joy to the world! the lord is come;

Let earth re-ceive her King;

Let ev-ery heart pre-pare him room,

And heaven and na-ture sing,

And heaven and na-ture sing,

And heaven and na-ture sing.

Joy to the world! the Sav-iour reigns;

Let men their songs em-ploy

While fields and floods,

rocks, hills and plains

Re-peat the sound-ing joy,

Re-peat the sound-ing joy,

Re-peat, re-peat the sound-ing joy.

He rules the world with truth and grace,

And makes the nations prove

The glo-ries of his right-eous-ness,

And won-ders of his love,

And won-ders of his love

And won-ders, and won-ders of his love.

A-men.

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Written by Isaac Watts

Words by Isaac Watts. Historical text published in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

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The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920), “Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come”

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