Sunday, December 25, 2011
CHRISTMAS DAY

Come let us join our cheerful songs,

With angels round the throne;

Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,

But all their joys are one.

 

Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry,

To be exalted thus:

Worthy the Lamb, our lips reply,

For he was slain for us.

 

Jesus is worthy to receive

Honour and pow’r divine;

And blessings, more than we can give,

Be, Lord, for ever thine.

 

Let all who dwell above the sky,

And air, and earth, and seas,

Conspire to lift thy glories high,

And speak thine endless praise.

 

The whole creation join in one,

To bless the sacred name,

Of him who sits upon the throne,

And to adore the Lamb.

... Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Hymns and Spiritual Songs [1707], in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, ed. Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834, book I, hymn 62, p. 321 (see the book; see also Rev. 5:11-13; Job 38:4-7; Ps. 148:3; Luke 2:13-14; more at Angel, Blessing, Christmas, Glory, Honor, Jesus, Joy, Lamb, Praise, Song)

 
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