Christmas
Joy to the World
- Words:
- Isaac Watts, 1719.
- Music:
- 'Antioch' pieced together from "Messiah" George F. Handel, 1741.
- Setting:
- Lowell Mason, 1836.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6 6 8
- 1Joy 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,And Heav'n and nature sing,And Heav'n, and Heav'n, and nature sing.
- 2Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!Let men their songs employ;While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plainsRepeat the sounding joy,Repeat the sounding joy,Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
- 3No more let sins and sorrows grow,Nor thorns infest the ground;He comes to make His blessings flowFar as the curse is found,Far as the curse is found,Far as, far as, the curse is found.
- 4He rules the world with truth and grace,And makes the nations proveThe glories of His righteousness,And wonders of His love,And wonders of His love,And wonders, wonders, of His love.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1719, the words are in 2,068 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Antioch, is in 1,219 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.