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Hymnal Number
879Resource Type:
Keys included:
G
About this Hymn
Wesley's hymn anticipates the coming of the kingdom. Theatrical machinery and a cast of thousands make of this hymn something of a biblical spectacular, attending the descent of Christ at the last day. – Madeleine Forell Marshall & Janet Todd
Lyrics
Verse 1
Lo, he comes with clouds descending, once for our salvation slain; thousand, thousand saints attending swell the triumph of his train: alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Christ the Lord forever reigns.
Verse 2
Ev'ry eye shall now behold him, robed in dreadful majesty; those who set at naught and sold him, pierced, and nailed him to the tree, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing shall the true Messiah see.
Verse 3
Those dear tokens of his passion, still his dazzling body bears, cause of endless exultation to his ransomed worshipers: with what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture gaze we on those glorious scars!
Verse 4
Yea, amen! let all adore thee, high on thine eternal throne; Lord, thou hast taken all the pow'r and glory, thine the kingdom e'er shall be! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Thou dost reign, and we with thee.
Lo, he comes with clouds descending, once for our salvation slain; thousand, thousand saints attending swell the triumph of his train: alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Christ the Lord forever reigns.
Verse 2
Ev'ry eye shall now behold him, robed in dreadful majesty; those who set at naught and sold him, pierced, and nailed him to the tree, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing shall the true Messiah see.
Verse 3
Those dear tokens of his passion, still his dazzling body bears, cause of endless exultation to his ransomed worshipers: with what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture gaze we on those glorious scars!
Verse 4
Yea, amen! let all adore thee, high on thine eternal throne; Lord, thou hast taken all the pow'r and glory, thine the kingdom e'er shall be! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Thou dost reign, and we with thee.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Charles Wesley, 1758, alt.
Music: Madan's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, ca. 1763; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
Music: Madan's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, ca. 1763; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906