Joy to the World

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George Frideric Handel (1733)

Joy to the World ("Rejoice, World") is one of the most popular and well-known Christmas carols from the Anglo-Saxon language area.

Isaac Watts (1674–1748) wrote the text in 1719 ( The Psalms of David in the New Testament language for the Christian class and worship ) based on the second part of Psalm 98 . In 1836 Lowell Mason adapted the music from an older melody and arranged the choral setting. Since the first four notes of the piece resemble the choir Lift up your heads (“Hoch tut dich auf”) from the oratorio Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel and Glory to God (“Ehre sei Gott”) and also a theme from the tenor recitative Comfort ye my people ("Consoling my people") can be heard in the middle part, this is initially treated as the original composer. However, he is not the sole author.

Adaptations

Many greats in the music business included the title Joy to the World in their respective Christmas albums.

Examples:

text

Joy to the World (1:31)
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

Translations into German

Version by Walter Rauschenbusch (1897)

Rejoice, world, your king is approaching.
Open your gates.
Rich in grace and noble in deed,
the lord of glory,
the lord of glory,
the Lord, the Lord, of glory.
Rejoice, world, your king is approaching.
Now happily rustle your singing!
Of fields and meadows, of mountains and sea
resound the jubilation!
Resound the jubilation,
resound, resound the sound of jubilation!
Day is breaking! The Lord commanded!
Gone mankind night:
His scepter is justice
and love is his power!
And love is his power!
And love, and love, is his power!

Version by Johannes Haas (1962)

Rejoice, world, your king is approaching.
Open your gates.
He comes after his father's advice
the lord of glory,
the lord of glory,
the Lord, the Lord, of glory.
Jesus is coming soon, get ready.
He helps out of the night of sin.
His scepter is called mercy
and love is his power
and love is his power
and love and love is his power.
Rejoice because Jesus wins,
will be the whole world.
Satan's kingdom is down,
because Christ liked him,
because Christ liked him,
because Christ, because Christ pleased him.

Version by Annette Sommer (1985)

Rejoice, world, the Lord is here! Accept your king!
And every heart receive him, make room for him and sing to him!
Yes, earth and sky sing, yes, earth and sky sing,
yes, earth, yes, earth and sky sing!
Rejoice, world, your Savior is coming. Agree, folks, agree!
And field and forest and stream and beach and rocks, hills, flat land,
take on the praise, take on the praise,
take up, take up the hymn of praise.
Sin and guilt are averted, the land is at peace.
For God's salvation illuminates the world, His rich blessing fills it,
freed from all curse, freed from all curse,
freed from everything, every curse.
He rules with truth, justice and grace, and all nations see
the glory of his righteousness and his love mightiness,
all the world again, all the world again
the all, all the world again.

Parodies

Like many popular songs and poems, Joy to the World has seen numerous reinterpretations.

"Death to the World"

The variant of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society .

Death to the world! Cthulhu ’s come
Let Earth abhor this thing
Let every mind prepare for doom
As anguish and woe he'll bring
Up from the sea, R'lyeh did rise
The cultists awestruck dumb
With ancient rites so wretched and perverse
Cthulhu's time has come
Death to the world! Cthulhu reigns
The Great Old Ones Destroy
With wrath and doom, so cruel and foul
Replete with obscene joy
He rules the Earth with dreadful might
And through our ghastly dreams
His twisting turning tentacles
Elicit from us maddened screams
Cthulhu's time has come

"Joy to the World, our teacher's dead"

The following variant of the Christmas carol is particularly popular with school children in the United States.

Joy to the world, the teacher's dead
We barbecued the head
Don't worry about the body
We flushed it down the potty
And round and round it goes
And round and round it goes
And rou-ound and rou-ou-ound and round it goes

We also like to replace barbecued with amputated and teacher with principal (“director”). We flushed it down the potty can be translated as “ We flushed it down the toilet”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gospel Songs 1 and 2 (Gospel Hymns) 255. Rejoice, world, your king is approaching! | Hymnary.org. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .