Translation of stanzas 1–9, and 20.

1. Immanuel we sing thy praise,
   Thou prince of life, thou spring of grace:
   We worship thee with one accord,
   Thou virgin son, thou Lord of Lords.
2. We join with heav’nly hosts to be,
   Employ’d with those who worship thee;
   Since long it hath been our request,
   That thou should’st come O wellcome guest.
3. How often since the world was made,
   Have many for thy comming pray’d!
   The fathers and the Prophets were,
   Desirious that thou should’st appear.
4. With ardent zeal for thee did look
   That king and shepherd of thy flock,
   That man who so well pleased thee,
   Who worship’d thee with Psaltery.
5. O may the Lord from Zion come
   To break our bands and take us home!
   May we relief by him obtain!
   That Jacob may rejoice again.
6. Now thou art come, as we have pray’d,
   And in a stall and manger laid;
   The world by thee, is cloath’d and fed,
   Thou hast not where to lay thy head.
7. Thy dwellings are of meanest kind.
   Yet all the heavens they are thine;
   A human breast affords thee food,
   Tho’ Angels worship thee their God.
8. The seas they bound at thy commands
   And thou art deck’d with swathing bands;
   Thou art our God, yet deign’st to be
   Expos’d to want and poverty.
9. Thou art the fount of ev’ry bliss,
   And het expos’d to great distress:
   All nations help, art thou alone,
   Thou seekest help but findest none.
10. We praise thee, O thou ev’r bless’d!
    Our praises are to thee address’d;
    If Angels join to praise thy name,
    Sure we are bound to do the same.