57 Lo! he comes, with clouds descending

The Hymnal 1982 57

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending

Tune
helmsley
Author(s)
Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Composer(s)
Thomas Augustine Arne , 1710-1778; Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter
8.7.8.7.12.7

1 Lo! he comes with clouds descending, once for our salvation slain; thousand, thousand saints attending swell the triumph of his train: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ the Lord returns to reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him, robed in dreadful majesty; those who set at nought and sold him, pierced, and nailed him to the tree, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, shall the true Messiah see.

3 Those dear tokens of his passion still his dazzling body bears, cause of endless exultation to his ransomed worshipers; with what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture, gaze we on those glorious scars!

4 Yea, amen! let all adore thee, high on thine eternal throne; Savior, take the power and glory; claim the kingdom for thine own: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

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