LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 4 7 extended
| | Writer(s): | John Cennick
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1752,1872
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Th 4:16
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| 1. Lo! He cometh! countless trumpets
Blow to raise the sleeping dead!
’Mid ten thousand saints and angels,
See the great exalted Head!
|: Hallelujah! :|
Welcome, welcome, Son of God!
2. Full of joyful expectation,
Saints behold their Lord appear;
Truth and justice go before Him;
Now the joyful sentence hear!
|: Hallelujah! :|
Welcome sounds throughout the air!
3. Come, ye blessèd of My Father,
Enter into life and joy!
Banish all your fears and sorrows,
Endless praise be your employ!
|: Hallelujah! :|
Welcome, welcome to the skies.
4. Now at once they rise to glory,
Jesus brings them to the King;
There with all the hosts of Heaven,
They eternal anthems sing:
|: Hallelujah! :|
Boundless glory to the Lamb!
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