Come, Your Hearts and Voices Raising

Come

your hearts and voic­es rais­ing

Christ the Lord with glad­ness prais­ing;

Loudly sing His love am­az­ing

Worthy folk of Chris­ten­dom.

Sin and death may well be groan­ing

Satan now may well be moan­ing;

We

our full sal­va­tion own­ing

Cast our ev­ery care away.

See how God

for us pro­vid­ing

Gave His Son and life abid­ing;

He our wea­ry steps is guid­ing

From earth’s woes to heav’n­ly joy.

Christ

from Heav­en to us des­cend­ing

And in love our race be­friend­ing

In our need His help ex­tend­ing

Saved us from the wi­ly foe.

Jacob’s Star in all its splen­dor

Beams with com­fort sweet and ten­der

Forcing Sa­tan to sur­ren­der

Breaking all the pow­ers of hell.

From the bond­age that op­pressed us

From sin’s fet­ters that pos­sessed us

From the grief that sore dis­tressed us

We

the cap­tives

now are free.

Oh

the joy be­yond ex­press­ing

When by faith we grasp this bless­ing

And to Thee we come con­fess­ing

That our free­dom Thou hast wrought!

Gracious Child

we pray Thee

hear us

From Thy low­ly man­ger cheer us

Gently lead us and be near us

Till we join th’an­gel­ic choir.