Christmas
How Brightly Shines The Morning Star
- Words:
- Philip Nicolai
- Music:
- Philip Nicolai , Arr. by Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheet music
- 1How brightly shines the morning star,With mercy beaming from afar;The host of heav’n rejoices;O Righteous Branch, O Jesse’s Rod!Thou Son of man and Son of God!We, too, will lift our voices:Amen, Amen!Holy, holy, yet most lowly,Draw Thou near us;Great Emmanuel, come and hear us.
- 2Though circled by the hosts on high,He deigned to cast a pitying eyeUpon His helpless creature;The whole creation’s Head and Lord,By highest seraphim adored,Assumed our very nature;Jesus, grant us,Thru Thy merit, to inheritThy salvation;Hear, O hear our supplication.
- 3Rejoice, ye heav’ns; thou earth, reply;With praise, ye sinners, fill the sky,For this His incarnation.Incarnate God, put forth Thy pow’r,Ride on, ride on, great Conqueror,Till all know Thy salvation.Amen, Amen!Hallelujah! Hallelujah!Praise be givenEver more, by earth and heaven.Amen.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 17 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.