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.