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Joy to the World

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A few of the words

REPEATING
The carol's famous refrain asks heaven and nature to repeat the sounding joy, a cascading echo that Watts borrowed from the language of Psalm 98.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
THORNS
A lesser-sung verse promises that 'no more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground', a vivid image of the old world giving way to something new.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RECEIVE
The very first line is a command as much as a carol: 'Let earth receive her King', an invitation to welcome rather than merely witness.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WONDERS
Watts calls on the Lord to make 'his blessings flow far as the curse is found', one of the carol's quiet wonders is how much hope it packs into a single verse.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Joy to the World word search, free, where the hills and the fields and the floods repeat the sounding joy on a page you can print and fill in by hand.

About Joy to the World

Isaac Watts wrote "Joy to the World" in 1719 as a paraphrase of Psalm 98, imagining all creation breaking into song at the coming of the King. Lowell Mason set the words to their now-familiar tune in 1839, drawing inspiration partly from Handel, and the carol has rung out at Christmas ever since. From church pews to candlelit living rooms, its verses roll through fields and floods, rocks and hills, asking every corner of the earth to join the chorus.

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