Ever so often a song gets stuck in my head and will not leave. Often, it is a commercial for something I don't even like. Usually, it is annoying.
This time, I am thoroughly enjoying myself!
During the night I woke myself up singing and humming… Something. It was majestic and beautiful. It was familiar, but I don't remember it recently. It's entirely possible that I sang it in church last Sunday, it just didn't register until today.
I had to look it up!
Turns out it is from our hymnal. LSB 336
The words are by Charles Wesley, the melody is by Thomas Olivers.
Lo, He comes with Clouds Descending
Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
Once for ev'ry sinner slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.
Ev'ry eye shall now behold him
Robed in glorious majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, shall their true Messiah see.
Those dear tokens of his Passion
Still his dazzling body bears,
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshipers.
With what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!
Yea, amen, let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the pow'r and glory,
Claim the kingdom for thine own.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone!
