O Zion! Lovely Zion!

O Zion! love­ly Zi­on!

Thou ci­ty of the faith­ful

How oft­en with rap­ture

Thy prais­es we sing!

Where mill­ions of re­deemed ones

Are dwell­ing now in bright­ness

And prais­ing for­ev­er

Our Sav­ior and king.

Where the loud swell­ing chor­us

Of tri­umph eter­nal

Rolls down from the re­gions

Of end­less de­light

Where the ran­somed are re­turn­ing

With music and re­joic­ing

To walk with the Sav­ior

In gar­ments of white.

O Zi­on! love­ly Zi­on!

Thou car­est for the low­ly;

Thy ban­ner of mer­cy

Still wav­ing we see;

Thy watch­men thou art send­ing

With tid­ings

joy­ful tid­ings

To ga­ther the lost ones

And bring them to thee.

O Zi­on! love­ly Zi­on!

O when shall we be­hold thee

Thy beau­ty and splen­dor

Forever to share?

Where loved ones who have en­tered

Thy bright and shin­ing por­tals

Are wait­ing and watch­ing

To wel­come us there.