The poem celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ and the joy his coming brings to the world. It describes nature singing and rejoicing at his arrival as the Savior and King. All hearts and lands are called to receive him and repeat the sounds of joy in response to his rule over the earth with grace, love, and the end of sins and sorrows.

1. Joy To
The World

2. Joy to the world!
The Lord is come
Let earth receive her
King
Let every heart
Prepare Him room

3. And heaven and nature
sing
And heaven and nature
sing
And heaven, and heaven
And nature sing

4. Joy to the earth!
The Savior reigns
Let men their songs
employ
While fields and floods
Rocks, hills and plains

5. Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat
The sounding joy

6. No more let sins and
sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the
ground
He comes to make His
blessing flow

7. Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse is found
Far as, far as
The curse is found

8. He rules the world with
truth and grace
And makes the nations
prove
The glories of His
righteousness

9. And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders
Of His love