Jesu hail! O God most holy (John Stainer)

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Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2007-12-01).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 28 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Based on the edition from CyberHymnal - File Sizes: PDF: 21 KB, MIDI: 3 KB, Sib4: 31 KB.

General Information

Title: Jesu hail! O God most holy
Composer: John Stainer

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymns     Meter: 88. 88. 87. 86
Language: English
Instruments: piano/organ
Published: Lyrics: Au­thor un­known (Ave Je­su Deus); translated from La­tin to Eng­lish by Henry R. Bram­ley in Christ­mas Car­ols New and Old (Lon­d­on: No­vel­lo, Ew­er & Co., 1871), pp. 14-15.

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• Cyber Hymnal entry for Hymn "Jesu hail! O God most holy"

Original text and translations

English text

1.

Jesu hail! O God most holy,

Gentle Lamb, an Infant lowly;

Born, great God, a human stranger,

Laid within the narrow manger:

Refrain:

Might transcending, weakness blending,

Greatness bending from the sky;

Love unending, man befriending,

God most High, God most High.

2.

To enrich my desolation,

To redeem me from damnation,

Wrapt in swathing bands Thou liest,

Thou in want and weakness sighest:

Refrain.

3.

Low abased, where brutes are sleeping,

God’s belovèd Son is weeping;

Judge supreme, true Godhead sharing,

Sinner’s likeness for us wearing!

Refrain.

4.

Jesu, Thine my heart is solely;

Draw it, take it to Thee wholly;

With Thy sacred fire illume me,

Let it inwardly consume me.

Refrain.

5.

Hence let idle fancies vanish,

Hence all evil passions banish;

Make me like Thyself in meekness,

Bind to Thee my human weakness,

Refrain.

Lyrics: Au­thor un­known (Ave Je­su Deus); translated from La­tin to Eng­lish by Henry R. Bram­ley, 1871.