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Text:Jesus, the name high over all
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Tune:NATIVITY
Composer:Henry Lahee, 1826-1912

258a. Jesus, the name high over all

1 Jesus, the name high over all,
in hell, or earth, or sky:
angels and men before it fall,
and devils fear and fly.

2 Jesus, the name to sinners dear,
the name to sinners given;
it scatters all their guilty fear,
it turns their hell to heaven.

3 Jesus, the prisoner's fetters breaks,
and bruises Satan's head;
power into strengthless souls he speaks,
and life into the dead.

4 O that the world might taste and see
the riches of his grace!
The arms of love that compass me,
would all mankind embrace.

5 His only righteousness I show,
his saving truth proclaim:
'tis all my business here below
to cry: 'Behold the Lamb!'

6 Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp his name:
preach him to all, and cry in death:
'Behold, behold the Lamb!'

Text Information
First Line: Jesus, the name high over all
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Meter: C.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2010
Topic: General Hymns: God the Son
Tune Information
Name: NATIVITY
Composer: Henry Lahee, 1826-1912
Meter: C.M.
Key: B♭ Major



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