Text:Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Alterer:Martin Madan
Author (st. 1-2, 5):Charles Wesley
Author (st. 3-4):John Cennick
Tune:WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Composer:Henry Purcell

386. Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending

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.

Text Information
First Line: Lo! he comes with clouds descending
Title: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Author (st. 1-2, 5): Charles Wesley
Author (st. 3-4): John Cennick
Alterer: Martin Madan (1760)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2018
Scripture: ; ; ; ;
Topic: Christ: As King; Christ: Second Coming and the Last Judgment of; Christians: Triumph of (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Composer: Henry Purcell (ca. 1692)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.
Key: G Major or modal



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