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Text:Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Tune:HELMSLEY
Composer:Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799

435. Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending

1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
once for our salvation slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
join to sing the glad refrain:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.

2 Now redemption, long expected,
comes in solemn splendor near;
all the saints this world rejected
thrill the trumpet sound to hear:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
See the day of God appear!

3 Yea, amen, let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
claim the kingdom as thine own.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone!

Text Information
First Line: Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Title: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 (alt.)
Meter: 8 7 8 7 12 7
Language: English
Publication Date: 2006
Topic: End Time; Advent; Judgment
Tune Information
Name: HELMSLEY
Composer: Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799
Meter: 8 7 8 7 12 7
Key: G Major



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