Part II

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending

Zion

p. 44
Key D major
Singing key C major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending,Once for favored sinners slain!Thousand, thousand saints attending,Swell the triumph of his train;Hallelujah!Jesus comes, and comes to reign.

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,Shall the true Messiah see!

When the solemn trump has sounded,Heaven and earth shall flee away;All who hate him must, confounded,Hear the summons of that day—"Come to judgment!Come to judgment! come away!"

Yea, amen! let all adore thee,High on thine eternal throne!Savior, take the power and glory,Make thy righteous sentence known,O come quickly—Claim the kingdom for thine own!

About this hymn

As printed Millennial Harp (1843), Part II, printed pp. 44–45 (PDF 120–121). Three staves (Treble with the words, Second Treble, Bass); D major, 3/4. The first strain is repeated: the two lines joined by a brace under system 1 are lines 1–2 and lines 3–4 of stanza 1. The «Hallelujah» is sung twice; the Bass rests through the first of the two.