Ancient and Modern ‎#41

41. Lo, he comes with clouds descending

1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
once for favoured sinners slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.

2 Every 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,
shall the true Messiah see.

3 Those dear tokens of his passion
still his dazzling body bears,
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshippers:
with what rapture
gaze we on those glorious scars!

4 Yea, Amen, let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
claim the kingdom for thine own:
Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Text Information

• First Line: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
• Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
• Author: John Cennick (1718-1755)
• Meter: 87 87 47 extended
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Zechariah 12:10
  ;
  1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
  ;
  2 Thessalonians 1:5-10
• Topic: Adoration; Advent; Advent Sunday: Year A; Advent Sunday: Year B; Advent Sunday: Year C; Church Year: Advent; Church Year: Good Friday; Church Year: Christ the King; Jesus: coming again; Kingdom of God; Other Saints and Festivals: St Stephen; The Fourth Sunday before Advent: Year C
• Notes: The fifth line of each verse is sung three times.

Tune Information

• Name: HELMSLEY
• Meter: 87 87 47 extended
• Key: G Major
• Source: Melody adapted from John Wesley's Select Hymns with Tunes Annext, 1765