The Cyber Hymnal ‎#16906

16906. Lo, He, On Whom All Power Is Laid

1 Lo, He, on whom all pow­er is laid,
Who sits at God’s right hand on high,
To judge the liv­ing and the dead,
In pow­er and glo­ry draw­eth nigh.

2 Awake, ye care­less souls, awake,
And trem­ble, ye sin­ners, at His ire,
When on a guil­ty world shall break
The Lord re­vealed in flam­ing fire.

3 Ye saints who watch and wait shall see
That morn­ing dawn in glo­ry bright;
Your king shall come to set you free,
And crown you then with life and light.

4 His peo­ple, with a migh­ty hand,
He from earth’s con­flicts then shall bring
To dwell with­in their fa­ther­land,
Where hal­le­lu­jahs they shall sing.

5 Ye saints, awake, make haste to meet
The ho­ly Bride­groom with His train;
So shall we wor­ship at His feet,
So shall we in His king­dom reign.

Text Information

• First Line: Lo, He, on whom all pow­er is laid
• Title: Lo, He, On Whom All Power Is Laid
• German Title: Wach auf, wach auf, du sicre Welt
• Author: Johann Rist
• Translator: Catherine Winkworth (cento)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Neuer himmlische Lieder sonderbahres Buch (Lüneberg, Germany, 1651); Tr.: Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Church of Christ, Part I by Horace L. Hastings (Boston: Scriptural Tract Repository, 1880); Cento of "Awake, thou careless world, awake"
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: RIVERA
• Composer: Dimitri Stepanovich Bortniansky (arr.)
• Meter: LM
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: Public Domain