December 18, 2018 (Tuesday)
We love to sing the Christmas carols at this time of year. Many people find great joy in going as a group to homes and serenading the residents with beautiful Christmas music. Most people in those homes really appreciate it, especially if they are unable to leave their homes. The carolers share the good news and they do it with great joy.
Isaac Watts found a basis for “Joy to the World” in Psalm 98, which says, “Sing to the LORD a new song. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.
JOY TO THE WORLD
Isaac Watts 1719
Tune: Antioch, George F. Handel, arr. by Lowell Mason, pub.1836
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
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,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
Rejoice! Rejoice in the Most High,
While Israel spreads abroad
Like stars that glitter in the sky,
And ever worship God,
And ever worship God,
And ever, and ever worship God.
FOR MAXIMUM JOY IN LISTENING, CLICK “YOU TUBE” THEN GO FULL SCREEN: