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Text:Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Author:C. Wesley, 1707-1788
Tune:ORIEL
Composer:C. Ett Cantica Sacra, 1840

109. Lo! He comes with clouds descending

1 Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favoured sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Amen.

2 Every eye shall now behold Him,
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at nought and sold Him,
Pierced, and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

3 Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear;
All His saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet Him in the air:
Hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!

4 Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own:
O come quickly;
Hallelujah! come, Lord, come!

Text Information
First Line: Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Author: C. Wesley, 1707-1788
Language: English
Publication Date: 1917
Topic: Christ: Coming again; Christ: Triumph of; Advent (See Second Coming): Of Christ (5 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ORIEL
Composer: C. Ett Cantica Sacra, 1840
Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7
Key: A Major



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