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Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

1. Lo, He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for our salvation slain;
Thousand thousand saints are tending
Swell the triumph of this train:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.

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, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

3. These 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!

4. Yea, amen! Let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Saviour take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for Thine own:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and Thou alone.

Lyrics: John Cennick
Music: English melody, 18^th Century

Tune: HELMSLEY

Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending

In 1758, Charles Wesley published in his Hymns of Intercession for all Mankind a four stanza text, “Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending.” Eight years earlier an associate of the Wesleys, John Cennick, had written a hymn with a similar text. This present version first appeared in 1760 and is really a combination of both Cennick’s and Wesley’s texts.