Redeemer
Jesus Shall Reign
- Words:
- Isaac Watts, 1719.
- Music:
- 'Duke Street' John Hatton, 1793.
- Setting:
- "Christian Hymns", 1908.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1Jesus shall reign where'er the sunDoes his successive journeys run;His kingdom stretch from shore to shoreTill moons shall wax and wane no more.
- 2For Him shall endless prayer be made,And praises throng to crown His head;His Name, like sweet perfume shall riseWith every morning sacrifice.
- 3People and realms of every tongueDwell on His love with sweetest song;And infant voices shall proclaimTheir early blessings on His Name.
- 4Blessings abound where'er He reigns;The prisoner leaps to lose his chains,The weary find eternal rest,And all the sons of want are blest.
- 5Where He displays His healing powerDeath and the curse are known no more;In Him the tribes of Adam boastMore blessings than their father lost.
- 6Let every creature rise and bringPeculiar honors to our King,Angels descend with songs again,And earth repeat the loud Amen.
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- Written in 1719, the words are in 1,946 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Duke Street, is in 1,851 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is 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.