Scripture Verse

She shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21

Introduction

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Isaac B. Woodbury (1819–1858)

Words: John Need­ham, Hymns De­vo­tion­al and Mo­ral on Va­ri­ous Sub­jects (Bris­tol, Eng­land: S. Far­ley, 1768), num­ber 82.

Music: Lake En­on Is­aac B. Wood­bu­ry, 1856 (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Need­ham (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

Jesus, de­light­ful name!
Salvation’s in the sound;
Search the wide world, a sweet­er word
In na­ture can’t be found.

Behold, an an­gel gives
The ho­ly Babe the name;
Behold the hea­ven­ly choir unite
To sing His last­ing fame.

Jesus, the king of grace,
An em­pire wide shall have;
From sin, the worst of foes to man,
His peo­ple He shall save.

O’er Ja­cob He shall reign;
Gentiles the knee shall bend;
His crown shall flour­ish on His head,
His king­dom ne­ver end.

Ye crea­tures all that dwell
On earth, in air and sea,
Th’exalted name of Je­sus praise,
And cheer­ful bow the knee.

Jesus, Thy name we praise,
And Thy re­demp­tion sing,
From all our sins our souls re­deem,
And Thy sal­va­tion bring.

When at Thy Fa­ther’s throne,
For need­ful grace we pray;
Thy all pre­vail­ing name we’ll plead,
And send our fears away.

Whilst on Thy pre­cious blood
For par­don we rely,
Swayed by Thy rich­est grace we will
All world­ly lusts deny.