Yet in the Lord will I be glad, and glory in his love; In him I’ll joy, who will the God of my salvation prove.
Ye heav’ns, send forth your song of praise! earth, raise your voice below! Let hills and mountains join the hymn, and joy through nature flow. 2 Behold how gracious is our God! hear the consoling strains, In which he cheers our drooping hearts, and mitigates our pains. 3 Cease ye, when days of darkness come, in sad dismay to mourn, As if the Lord could leave his saints forsaken or forlorn. 4 Can the fond mother e’er forget the infant whom she bore? And can its plaintive cries be heard, nor move compassion more? 5 She may forget: nature may fail a parent’s heart to move; But Sion on my heart shall dwell in everlasting love. 6 Full in my sight, upon my hands I have engrav’d her name: My hands shall build her ruin’d walls, and raise her broken frame.
Fear not, he said, (for sudden dread had seiz’d their troubled mind;) Glad tidings of great joy I bring to you, and all mankind.To you, in David’s town, this day is born, of David’s line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord;
Saints by the pow’r of God are kept till the salvation come: We walk by faith as strangers here; but Christ shall call us home.
Behold th’ amazing gift of love the Father hath bestow’d On us, the sinful sons of men, to call us sons of God! 2 Conceal’d as yet this honour lies, by this dark world unknown, A world that knew not when he came, ev’n God’s eternal Son. 3 High is the rank we now possess; but higher we shall rise; Though what we shall hereafter be is hid from mortal eyes: 4 Our souls, we know, when he appears, shall bear his image bright; For all his glory, full disclos’d, shall open to our sight. 5 A hope so great, and so divine, may trials well endure; And purge the soul from sense and sin, as Christ himself is pure.