Once More, O Lord, Thy Sign

Once more

O Lord

Thy sign shall be

Upon the heav’ns dis­played

And earth and its in­hab­it­ants

Be ter­ri­bly afraid:

For not

in weak­ness clad

Thou com’st

Our woes

our sins to bear

But girt with all Thy Fa­ther’s might

His judg­ment to de­clare.

The ter­rors of that aw­ful day

O who can un­der­stand?

Or who ab­ide

when Thou in wrath

Shall lift Thy ho­ly hand?

The earth shall quake

the sea shall roar

The sun in heav’n grow pale;

But Thou hast sworn

and wilt not change

Thy faith­ful shall not fail.

Then grant us

Sav­ior

so to pass

Our time in trem­bling here

That when up­on the clouds of Heav’n

Thy glo­ry shall ap­pear

Uplifting high our joy­ful heads

In tri­umph we may rise

And en­ter

with Thine an­gel train

Thy pal­ace in the skies.