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Text:Salvation, oh, the joyful sound!
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:CHESTERFIELD
Composer:Thomas Haweis

132. Salvation, oh, the joyful sound!

1 Salvation, oh, the joyful sound!
'Tis music to our ears;
A sov'reign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.

2 Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At hell's dark door we lay:
But we arise by grace divine,
To see a heavenly day.

3 Salvation! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around;
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

4 Salvation! O Thou bleeding Lamb,
To Thee the praise belongs:
Our hearts shall kindle at Thy name,
Thy name inspire our songs.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Salvation, oh, the joyful sound!
Author: Isaac Watts (1709)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1899
Topic: Christ: Lamb of God; Christ: Praise to; Forgiveness: Of Sin (5 more...)
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: CHESTERFIELD
Composer: Thomas Haweis
Meter: C. M.
Notes: Public Domain.



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