Text: | Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending |
Alterer: | Charles Wesley |
Alterer: | Martin Madan |
Author: | John Cennick |
Tune: | HELMSLEY |
Arranger: | Thomas Olivers |
1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
see the Lamb for sinners slain!
Thousand thousand saints attending
join to sing the glad refrain:
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.
2 Every eye shall now behold you,
robed in awesome majesty;
all who jeered, and mocked, and sold you,
pierced, and nailed you to the tree,
deeply grieving, deeply grieving, deeply grieving,
shall the true Messiah see.
3 Now redemption, long expected
see in pomp appear;
all the saints, by us rejected,
thrill the trumpet sound to hear:
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!
4 Yea! Amen! Let all adore you,
high on your eternal throne;
crowns and empires fall before you,
claim the kingdom for your own:
O come quickly! O come quickly! O come quickly!
Everlasting Christ, come down.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Lo, he comes with clouds descending |
Title: | Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending |
Alterer: | Charles Wesley (1758, alt.) |
Alterer: | Martin Madan (1769, alt.) |
Author: | John Cennick (1750) |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 4 7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Adoration and Praise; Christian Year: Advent; Communion of Saints(20 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HELMSLEY |
Arranger: | Thomas Olivers (1765) |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 4 7 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | English melody 18th century |