Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter's Field!

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people!

For unto us a child is born.

He did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but
Made Himself nothing,
Taking the form of a servant,
Being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form,
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,
Even death on a cross.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

He became flesh, and dwelt among us,
And we have seen His glory,
Glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him,
Yet the world did not know Him.
He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

He was despised and rejected by men;
A man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
As one from whom men hide their faces,
He was despised,
And we esteemed Him not.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

Surely He has borne our griefs,
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions;
He was crushed for our iniquities.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned every one to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him
The iniquity of us all.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

Out of the anguish of His soul He shall see and be satisfied;
By His knowledge shall the Righteous One,
My Servant,
Make many to be accounted righteous,
And He shall bear our iniquities:
Upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
And with His stripes we are healed.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

He has not dealt with us as we deserved,
And whoever comes to Him He will not cast out.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

And we shall sing a new song, saying,

'You are worthy,
For you were slain, and by
Your blood
You ransomed people for God
From every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
And you have made them a kingdom
And priests to our God,
And they shall reign on the earth.'

His blood be on us, and on our children.