First Line |
Writer(s) |
Scripture Refs |
Meter |
Verses |
| Martin Luther Katherine Winkworth tr/ad Katherine Winkworth | Lk 2:7 | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | 3 |
| James Montgomery | Mt 2:1; Mt 2:10; Lk 2:8; Lk 2:13-14 | 8 7 8 7 and refrain | 8 |
| Charles Wesley | Ps 4:1; Tit 3:5 | 7 7 7 7 | 18 |
| Scottish Psalter and Paraphras | Ps 97 | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | 10 |
| Charles Wesley George Whitefield Martin Madan others | Is 7:14; Is 9:6-7; Mal 4:2; Mal 4:2; Lk 2:13-14; Jn 3:3; Jn 3:5; Gal 4:4; Phil 2:7-8 | 7 7 7 7 D and refrain | 5 |
| Edmund Hamilton Sears | Lk 2:8-9; Lk 2:14 | 8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.) | 5 |
| Isaac Watts | Ps 98:49; Lk 2:10; Jn 1:23 | 8 6 8 6 extended | 4 |
| Philip Doddridge | Is 62:6; Heb 13:17 | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | 10 |
| Isaac Watts | Gal 4:4-5; Eph 1:3-5; 2 Ti 1:9-10; Tit 3:5; Rev 13:8 | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | 8 |
| Cecil Frances (Humphreys) Alexander | Lk 2:4; Lk 2:7; Lk 2:11; Lk 2:51; Heb 4:15 | 8 7 8 7 7 7 | 7 |
| Michael A. Perry | Mt 2:1; Mt 2:10; Lk 2:4; Lk 2:7-8 | . | None |
| Josef (Joseph) Mohr Franz Xaver Gruber Stopford Augustus Brooke John Freeman Young tr/ad Stopford Augustus Brooke John Freeman Young | Lk 2:6-14 | . | 4 |
| Traditional English Carol | Mt 2:1; Mt 2:10-11; Lk 2:1-10; Lk 2:4; Lk 2:8; Lk 2:10 | . | 9 |
| Isaac Watts | Ps 97:6-9 | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.) | 4 |
| Nahum Tate | Lk 2:8-14 | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | 12 |
| Benjamin Russell Hanby | Mt 27:50; Mt 28:6; Mk 15:37; Mk 16:6; Lk 2:15-16; Lk 5:15; Jn 11:35; Jn 19:30; Jn 21:14 | 7 7 and refrain | 8 |