LO! HE COMES WITH CLOUDS DESCENDING

A HYMN FOR ADVENT SUNDAY

By Charles Wesley, 1758

 

1 Lo! he comes with clouds descending,

Once for favored sinners slain;

Thousand, thousand saints attending

Swell the triumph of his train.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

God appears on earth to reign.

 

2 Ev'ry 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, deeply wailing,

Shall the true Messiah see.

 

3 Ev'ry 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 to judgment, come away!

 

4 Now Redemption, long expected,

See in solemn pomp appear!

All his saints, by man rejected,

Now shall meet him in the air.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

See the day of God appear!

 

5 Yea, amen! let all adore thee,

High on thine eternal throne;

Savior, take the pow'r and glory,

Claim the kingdom for thine own.

O come quickly, O come quickly;

Alleluia! come, Lord, come.