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The United Methodist Hymnal · No. 718 · Words: Charles Wesley · Tune: HELMSLEY
Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A triumphant Advent hymn by Charles Wesley (1758), based on Revelation 1:7, vividly depicting the second coming of Christ amid clouds, with saints and sinners alike beholding his return in majesty.
Verse 1
Lo, he comes with
clouds descending,
once for favored
sinners slain;
thousand, thousand
saints attending
swell the triumph
of his train.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
God appears on
earth to reign.
Verse 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,
deeply wailing,
deeply wailing,
shall the true
Messiah see.
Verse 3
The dear tokens
of his passion
still his dazzling
body bears;
cause of endless
exultation
to his ransomed
worshipers;
with what rapture,
with what rapture,
with what rapture,
gaze we on those
glorious scars!
Verse 4
Yea, Amen!
Let all adore thee,
high on thy
eternal throne;
Savior, take the
power and glory,
claim the kingdom
for thine own.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Everlasting God, come down!
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