Behold, He cometh!
LO! He comes, with clouds descending
Once for favour’d sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints, attending,
Swell the triumph of his train:
Hallelujah!
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 nail’d him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.
3 All the tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransom’d worshippers;
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;
Make thy righteous sentence known:
Jah-! Jehovah!
Claim the kingdom for thine own.
Charles Wesley
Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)
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