Sing, ye heavens; and, earth, rejoice, make to God

Verse 1
Sing, ye heavens, and earth rejoice,
Make to God a chearful noise,
He the work alone hath done,
He hath glorified his Son.

Verse 2
Sons of God exulting rise
Join the triumph of the skies,
See the prodigal is come,
Shout to bear the wanderer home!

Verse 3
Strive in joy with angels strive,
Dead she was, but now’s alive,
Loud repeat the glorious sound,
Lost she was, but now is found!

Verse 4
This through ages all along,
This be still the joyous song,
Wide diffus’d o’er earth abroad,
Music in the ears of God.

Verse 5
Rescued from the fowler’s snare,
Jesus spreads his arms for her,
Jesu’s arms her sacred fence:—
Come, ye fiends, and pluck her thence!

Verse 6
Thence she never shall remove,
Safe in his redeeming love:
This the purchase of his groans!
This the soul he died for once!

Verse 7
Now the gracious Father smiles,
Now the Saviour boasts his spoils;
Now the Spirit grieves no more:
Sing ye heav’ns, and earth adore!
Hallelujah.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "On the Conversion of a Common Harlot (Luke xv. 10)." This is the original version of this hymn, as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)," published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1739). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 93.
Publishing: Public Domain