The King Shall Come
The King shall come when morning dawns and light triumphant breaks;
when beauty gilds the eastern hills and life to joy awakes.
Not as of old, a little child, to bear, and fight, and die,
but crowned with glory like the sun that lights the morning sun.
The King shall come when morning dawns and earth's dark night is past;
O haste the rising of that morn, the day that e'er shall last.
Then let the endless bliss begin, by weary saints foretold,
when right shall triumph over wrong, and right shall be extolled.
The King shall come when morning dawns and light and beauty brings:
Hail, Christ the Lord! Your people pray, come quickly, King of kings.
WORDS: Ancient Greek hymn; tr. John Brownlie, 1907
MUSIC: Traditional American melody; Kentucky Harmony, Part Second, 1813
Psalm 1
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.
-From the NAS Bible-
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How glorious it is to contemplate the return of our Jesus!
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