9. Lo! he comes with clouds descending

1 LO! he comes with clouds descending,
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluya!
God appears, on earth 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
Shall the true Messiah see.

3 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!

4 Yea, Amen! let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory:
Claim the kingdom for thine own:
O come quickly!
Alleluya! Come, Lord, come!

Text Information
First Line: Lo! he comes with clouds descending
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 (alt)
Meter: 87 87 47
Language: English
Publication Date: 1986
Topic: The Christian Year: Advent
Tune Information
Name: HELMSLEY
Transcriber: T. Olivers, 1725-99
Meter: 87 87 47
Key: G Major
Source: Wesley's Select Hymns, 1765



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