Earth rejoice, the Lord hath rais’d
His own incarnate Son,
On the throne of David plac’d,
And on his heavenly throne,
Righteous Branch of Jesu’s [Jesse’s] stem
Righteousness he doth maintain,
King of saints, he reigns in them,
And shall forever reign.
Earth rejoice, the Lord hath rais’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold, the days come, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign, &c.”—[Jer.] xxiii. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 30.
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