Verse 1

LET earth and heaven combine, Angels and men agree, To praise in songs divine The incarnate Deity, Our God contracted to a span, Incomprehensibly made man.

Verse 2

He laid His glory by, He wrapped Him in our clay; Unmarked by human eye, The latent Godhead lay; Infant of days He here became, And bore the mild Immanuel’s name.

Verse 3

Unsearchable the love That hath the Saviour brought; The grace is far above Or men or angels thought: Suffice for us that God, we know, Our God, is manifest below.

Verse 4

He deigns in flesh to appear, Widest extremes to join; To bring our vileness near, And make us all divine: And we the life of God shall know, For God is manifest below.

Verse 5

Made perfect first in love, And sanctified by grace, We shall from earth remove, And see His glorious face: Then shall His love be fully showed, And man shall then be lost in God.

Background: Let Earth And Heaven Combine