Text: | Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending |
Alterer: | Martin Madan |
Author (st. 3-4): | John Cennick |
Author (stanzas 1-2, 5): | Charles Wesley |
Tune: | HOLYWOOD |
1 Lo! he comes, with clouds descending,
once for favored sinners slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.
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,
shall the true Messiah see.
3 Ev'ry island, sea, and mountain,
heav'n and earth, shall flee away;
all who hate him must, confounded,
hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment, come away!
4 Now Redemption, long expected,
see in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
now shall meet him in the air.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
See the day of God appear!
5 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;
alleluia! come, Lord, come.
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First Line: | Lo! he comes with clouds descending |
Title: | Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending |
Author (stanzas 1-2, 5): | Charles Wesley (1758) |
Author (st. 3-4): | John Cennick (1752) |
Alterer: | Martin Madan (1760) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christ: Kingly Office of; Christians: Triumph of; Resurrection of Believers(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HOLYWOOD |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.7. |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | John Francis Wade's Cantus Diversi, 1751 |
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