Once in royal Davids city

Once in royal David's city stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed: Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

He came down to earth from heaven who is God and Lord of all, and his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall; with the poor and mean and lowly lived on earth our Saviour holy.

In de stad van koning David met een stal als onderdak, ziet een moeder naar haar kindje, liggend in een voederbak. 't Is Maria die ons bracht Jezus, in de winternacht.