Hymn 22. C. M. [Tune--Antioch.]

Joy to the world! The Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King,
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the earth! The Saviour reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields, and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

3 While fields, and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy;
Joy to the earth! The Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ.

4 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.

5 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.