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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 favored sinners slain;
thousand, thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
alleluia,
alleluia,
alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.
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;
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
claim the kingdom for thine own:
O come quickly,
O come quickly,
O come quickly!
Alleluia! Come, Lord, come!
Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
once for favored sinners slain;
thousand, thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
alleluia,
alleluia,
alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.
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;
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
claim the kingdom for thine own:
O come quickly,
O come quickly,
O come quickly!
Alleluia! Come, Lord, come!
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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