Lo! he cometh—countless trumpets

Wake to life the slumbering dead;

’Mid ten thousand saints and angels,

See their great exalted Head:

Hallelujah!—

Welcome, welcome, Son of God!

2 Full of joyful expectation,

Saints behold the Judge appear;

Truth and justice go before him—

Now the joyful sentence hear;

Hallelujah!—

Welcome, welcome, Judge divine!

3 “Come, ye blesséd 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.