The Babe of Bethlehem Behold

    

Don Fortner

 

(Tune: Joy To The World #87  CM)

 

 

Let all the ransomed of the Lord

Lift up their voice and sing!

Come, celebrate with one accord

The birth of Christ our King.

 

 

The babe of Bethlehem behold - 

Incarnate Deity!

The virgin’s child is yet her Lord,

A man, yet God is He! </P>

 

 

In swaddling clothes the God-man view!

Do not despise His form.

The woman’s Seed shall hell subdue.

That’s why this child was born.

 

 

The crowded inn, like sinners’ breasts

For Jesus had no room.

So in the stable’s crib, with beasts,

Is laid the child, God’s Son!

 

 

God’s holy angels fill the skies

And sing Immanuel’s praise!

The shepherds and the men called wise

At His feet treasures place.

 

 

God in the flesh was manifest;

And He for sin atoned!

Immanuel, God in the flesh,

In heaven is enthroned!