Verse 1
Glory to God, and peace on earth!
A branch shall spring from Jesse’s line,
Of human, yet of heavenly birth,
And fill’d with all the Spirit divine.

Verse 2
The Spirit of wisdom from above
Shall dwell within his peaceful breast,
On him the Spirit of power, and love,
And counsel, shall for ever rest.

Verse 3
The Spirit of godly, filial fear,
On him for all mankind shall stay,
And make his senses quick and clear,
And guide him in the perfect way:

Verse 4
Shall make him apt to teach and reign,
His heavenly mission to fulfil,
Judgment and justice to maintain,
And execute his Father’s will.

Verse 5
Not by the hearing of the ear
He judges, or by reason’s light;
The guilty he can never clear,
For all his ways are just and right.

Verse 6
Yet will he plead the sinner’s cause,
The poor and self-condemn’d release,
Freed by the sufferings of his cross,
And sav’d by his own righteousness.

Verse 7
Their sins he shall to death condemn,
(They here shall find their final doom)
Their sins he shall destroy, not them;
And by his burning Spirit consume.

Verse 8
That wicked one he shall reprove,
Throughout the earth his power display,
Cast out their sin by perfect love,
And speak, and all its relicks slay.

Verse 9
Truth is the girdle of his reins,
The sanctifying word is sure,
They shall be sav’d from sin’s remains,
And pure as God himself is pure.

Verse 10
O what a change will soon ensue,
What sweet tranquillity, and peace!
His people shall be creatures new,
And discord shall for ever cease.

Verse 11
They all shall speak and think the same,
Their tempers and their hearts be one;
The wolf shall stable with the lamb,
The leopard with the kid lie down.

Verse 12
The lion with the calf shall dwell,
The fiercest spirits shall grow mild,
Gentle, and meek, and tractable,
And loving as a little child.

Verse 13
The lion like the ox shall graze,
The cow and bear together feed:
The serpent’s enmity shall cease,
And universal love succeed.

Verse 14
The sucking child shall safely then
Within the dragon’s covert stay,
Or put its hand upon his den,
And with the harmless adder play.

Verse 15
My people shall in dwellings sure
And quiet resting-places dwell,
Dwell in my holy hill, secure
From all the powers of earth and hell.

Verse 16
Hidden their life with God above,
The dire destroyer’s hour is o’er,
Secure they are in perfect love,
And sin shall never touch them more.

Verse 17
Sin shall no more in them have place,
Their earth in righteousness renew’d
Is fill’d with every heavenly grace,
Immeasurably fill’d with God.

Verse 18
That vast unfathomable sea,
Shall swallow up all of Adam’s line,
And every soul of man shall be
For ever lost in love divine.

Verse 19
A branch shall in that gospel-day
Out of the root of Jesse rise,
Stand as an ensign, and display
The cross in all the Gentiles eyes.

Verse 20
Thither the Gentile world shall flow,
And hide them in their Saviour’s breast,
Rejoice his pard’ning love to know,
And holiness his glorious rest.

Verse 21
Then shall the Lord his power display,
His antient people to retrieve,
Gather the hopeless cast-away,
And bid the house of Israel live.

Verse 22
Jehovah shall lay to his hand,
Collect his sheep to exile driven,
And bring them to their native land,
And add them to the church in heaven.