Jesus Is Coming Again
Text written in 1872 by Jessie E. Strout
Hymn tune composed in 1872 by George E. Lee
Psalm 149:5 Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor
and sing for joy on their beds.
Isaiah 58:1 Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
V. 1 Lift up the trumpet, and loud let it ring:
Jesus is coming again!
Cheer up, ye pilgrims, be joyful and sing;
Jesus is coming again!
Coming again, coming again,
Jesus is coming again!
Psalm 96:12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;
let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
Psalm 98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands,
let the mountains sing together for joy.
Matthew 24:30 Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.
Revelation 13:8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
V. 2 Echo it, hilltops; proclaim it, ye plains:
Jesus is coming again!
Coming in glory, the Lamb that was slain;
Jesus is coming again!
Coming again, coming again,
Jesus is coming again!
Psalm 98:7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.
V. 3 Heavings of earth, tell the vast, wondering throng:
Jesus is coming again!
Tempests, and whirlwinds, the anthem prolong;
Jesus is coming again!
Coming again, coming again,
Jesus is coming again!
Luke 21:10, 11 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven."
V. 4 Nations are angry--by this we do know
Jesus is coming again!
Knowledge increases; men run to and fro;
Jesus is coming again!
Coming again, coming again,
Jesus is coming again!
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