1 GLORY be to God on high, And peace on earth descend; God comes down: He bows the sky, And shows Himself our Friend! God the’ invisible appears, God, the blest, the great I AM, Sojourns in this vale of tears, And Jesus is His name. 2 Him the angels all adored, Their Maker and their King: Tidings of their humbled Lord They now to mortals bring: Emptied of His majesty, Of His dazzling glories shorn, Being’s Source begins to be, And God Himself is born! 3 See the’ eternal Son of God A mortal