Lyrics
1. Lo! He comes
with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
|: Hallelujah! :|
Christ the Lord returns to reign.
2. Every 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, :|
Shall the true Messiah see.
3. Millions to their doom are waking,
Sun and stars their light have shed;
Heaven and earth their place forsaking
At his awful look have fled:
|: While the trumpet :|
Summons loud the quick and dead.
4. Lo, the tokens of His passion
Still His glorious body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
[: Hallelujah! :]
ow the day of Christ appears.
5. Every 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 away!
6. Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear;
All His saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet Him in the air:
|: Hallelujah! :|
See the day of God appear!
7. Answer Thine own bride and Spirit,
Hasten, Lord, the general doom!
The new Heav’n and earth t’inherit,
Take Thy pining exiles home:
|: All creation, :|
Travails! groans!
and bids Thee come!
8. The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
|: With what rapture, :|
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
9. Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own;
|: O come quickly! :|
Everlasting God, come down!
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11. Lo! He comes
with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
|: Hallelujah! :|
Jesus shall for ever reign.
12. Lo! He comes
with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
|: Hallelujah! :|
God appears on earth to reign.
13. Lo! He comes
with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
|: Hallelujah! :|
Jesus come, and comes to reign!
14. Those dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
[: with what rapture :]
gaze we on those glorious scars!.
15. Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
Share the kingdom with Thine own;
|: O come quickly! :|
Hallelujah! come Lord, come!
16. Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own;
|: come, Lord Jesus! :|
Everlasting God, come down!