Common Praise ‎#31

31. 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:
Alleluia!
God appears on earth 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 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:
Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Text Information

• First Line: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
• Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
• Author: John Cennick, 1718-1755
• Meter: 87 87 47
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2000
• Scripture:
  1 Corinthians 15:24-25
  ;
  Daniel 7:13
  ;
  John 19:27
  ;
  Mark 13:26
  ;
  Revelation 1:7
  ;
  Revelation 19:4
• Topic: Advent; Advent I: Year A; Advent I: Year B

Tune Information

• Name: HELMSLEY
• Transcriber: Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799
• Meter: 87 87 47
• Key: G Major
• Source: John Wesley's Select Hymns and Tunes Annext, 1765