Lo! He Comes
The same words as 4 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
39 words changed · 2 stanzas only in SDA Hymnal #211
Verse 1
Behold, He cometh with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of His train:
Verse 1
Lo! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Countless angels, Him attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Verse 3
Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty!
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced, and nailed Him to the tree,
Verse 2
Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty!
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced, and nailed Him to the tree,
Not in this version
Verse 3
When the solemn trump has sounded,
Heaven and earth shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the summons of that day.
Not in this version
Verse 4
Yea, amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thy eternal throne!
Savior, take the power and glory,
Make Thy righteous sentence known;
Verse 2
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!God appears on earth
to
reign.Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
the Lord omnipotent shall reign.
Refrain
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Deep'ly wailing, Deep'ly wailing,
'Come to judgment!' 'Come to judgment!'
O come quickly, O come quickly,
Jesus comes, and comes to reign.
Shall the true Messiah see!
Come to judgment!
Claim the kingdom for Thine own!