Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 13 hymnals First Line: Look up, ye saints, with sweet surprise Lyrics:
1 Look up, ye saints, with sweet surprise,
Toward the joyful coming day,
When Jesus shall descend the skies,
And form a bright and dazzling ray.
2 Nations shall in a day be born,
And swift, like doves, to Jesus fly,
The church shall know no clouds return,
No sorrows mixing with their joy.
3 The lion and the lamb shall feed
Together in His peaceful reign;
And Zion, blest with heav’nly bread,
Of pinching wants no more complain.
4 The Jew, the Greek, the bond, the free,
Shall boast their separate rights no more;
But join in sweetest harmony,
Their Lord, their Savior to adore.
5 Thus, ’till a thousand years be past,
Shall holiness and peace prevail;
And every knee shall bow to Christ,
And every tongue shall Jesus hail.
6 Then the redeemed shall mount on high,
Where their delivering Prince is gone;
And angels at His word shall fly,
To bless them with the conqueror’s crown.
Used With Tune: MISSIONARY CHANT Text Sources: The Psalms and Hymns: with catechism, confession of faith and liturgy of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America by John H. Livingston (New York: Daniel D. Smith, 1814)
Look Up, Ye Saints, With Sweet Surprise