Text:Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-88
Tune:PICARDY

15. Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
Once for ev’ry sinner slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.

2 Ev’ry eye shall now behold him
Robed in glorious majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall their 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,
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

4 Yea, amen, let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
Claim the kingdom for thine own.
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, 1707-88 (alt.)
Meter: 87 87 87
Language: English
Publication Date: 1982
Topic: Advent; Church Triumphant; Judgment (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: PICARDY
Meter: 87 87 87
Key: d minor
Source: French folk tune, 17th cent.
Copyright: Arrangement: Copyright 1982 Concordia Publishing House.



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