The Celebration Hymnal

754

Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

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 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,  
Shall their true Messiah see.  

3 Now the Savior, 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.  

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.  
O come quickly! O come quickly!  
Everlasting God, come down!

WORDS: John Cennick
MUSIC: Henry T. Smart
Theme: Everlasting Fellowship: The Second Coming of Christ