Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Words and music by Charles Wesley · 1758
Key of G · 84 BPM · 4/4 · Advent,Hope · Revelation 1:7
Verse 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.
Verse 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, deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see.
Verse 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 to judgment! Come away!
Verse 4
Now redemption, long expected, See in solemn pomp appear; All His
saints, by man rejected, Now shall meet Him in the air:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! See the day of God appear!
Verse 5
Answer Thine own bride and Spirit, Hasten, Lord, the gen'ral doom! The new
Heav'n and earth inherit, Take Thy pining exiles home: All creation, all
creation, all creation, Travails! groans! and bids Thee come!
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