LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| | Dates: | 1709
| | Bible Refs: | Is 9:2; Is 9:6-7
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1
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MUSIC
| Name: | ERNAN
| | Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Lowell Mason
| | Dates: | 1850
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 Hymns of Faith
| 489
| Bb
| Believers Hymn Book
| 118
| Bb
| Believers Hymn Book
| 169
| Bb
| Believers Hymn Book
| 189
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. The lands that long in darkness lay
Now have beheld a heav’nly light;
Nations that sat in death’s cold shade
Are blessed with beams divinely bright.
2. The virgin’s promised Son is born,
Behold th’expected Child appear:
What shall His names or titles be?
“The Wonderful, the Counsellor.”
3. This infant is the mighty God,
Come to be suckled and adored;
Th’eternal Father, Prince of Peace,
The Son of David, and his Lord.
4. The government of earth and seas
Upon His shoulders shall be laid;
His wide dominions still increase,
And honors to His Name be paid.
5. Jesus, the holy Child, shall sit
High on His father David’s throne;
Shall crush His foes beneath His feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.
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