LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 9 8 8 9 8 6 6 4 8 8
| Writer(s): | Philipp Nicolai
| Transl/Adapt: | Frances Elizabeth Cox
| Dates: | 1599,1864
| Bible Refs: | Mt 25:10
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 77
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 55
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 394
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MUSIC
| Name: | WACHET AUF (SLEEPERS AWAKE)
| | Meter: | 8 9 8 8 9 8 6 6 4 8 8
| Writer(s): | Philipp Nicolai & Johann Sebastian Bach
| Dates: | 1599,1731
|  Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 544
| No key
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 518
| No key
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 249
| C
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 255
| Db
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 704
| Db
| | | 1. “Sleepers, wake!”
the watch cry pealeth,
While slumber deep
each eyelid sealeth:
Awake, Jerusalem, awake!
Midnight’s solemn hour is tolling,
And seraph-notes are onward rolling;
They call on us our part to take.
Come forth, ye virgins wise:
The Bridegroom comes, arise!
Alleluia! Each lamp be
bright with ready light
To grace the marriage feast tonight.
2. Zion hears the voice that singeth
With sudden joy
her glad heart springeth,
At once she wakes,
she stands arrayed:
Her Light is come,
her Star ascending,
Lo, girt with truth,
with mercy blending,
Her Bridegroom there,
so long delayed.
All hail! God’s glorious Son,
All hail! our joy and crown,
Alleluia! The joyful call
we answer all,
And follow to the bridal hall.
3. Praise to Him Who goes before us!
Let men and angels join in chorus,
Let harp and cymbal
add their sound.
Twelve the gates,
a pearl each portal:
We haste to join the choir immortal
Within the Holy City’s bound.
Ear ne’er heard aught like this,
Nor heart conceived such bliss.
Alleluia! We raise the song,
we swell the throng,
To praise Thee ages all along.
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