O Splendor of God's Glory Bright

"Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign:

Behold, the young woman who is unmarried and a virgin

shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel."

Isaiah 7:14

Immanuel

Yongsung Kim

Korean artist

O splendor of God's glory bright

From light eternal bringing light,

Thou light of light, light's living spring,

True day, all days illumining.

Come, very sun of Heaven's love,

In lasting radiance from above,

And pour the Holy Spirit's ray

On all we think or do today.

And now to Thee our prayers ascend,

O Father glorious without end;

We plead with sovereign Grace for pow'r

To conquer in temptation's hour.

Confirm our will to do the right,

And keep our hearts from envy's blight;

Let faith her eager fires renew,

And hate the false and love the true.

O joyful be the passing day

With thoughts as pure as morning's ray,

With faith like noontide shining bright,

Our souls unshadowed by the night.

Dawn's glory gilds the earth and skies,

Let Him, our perfect Morn, arise,

The Word in God, the Father one,

The Father imaged in the Son.

This hymn is attributed to 

Ambrose  Bishop of Milan

(340-397)

Translated in 1910 by

Reverend Louis F. Benson

(1855-1930)

American minister and hymn writer