Wake the Song of Jubilee

lyricist: Leonard Bacon, 1823
Composer: Lowell Mason, 1845

Wake the song of ju­bi­lee

Let it ec­ho o’er the sea!

Now is come the pro­mised hour

Jesus reigns with sov­er­eign pow­er.

All ye na­tions

join and sing

Christ of lords and kings is King.

Let it sound from shore to shore

Jesus reigns for­ev­er­more.

Now the de­sert lands re­joice

And the is­lands join their voice

Yea

the whole cre­ation sings

Jesus is the King of kings.

See the ran­somed mill­ions stand

Palms of con­quest in their hands

This be­fore the throne their strain

Hell is van­quished

death is slain.

Blessing

hon­or

glo­ry

might

Are the con­quer­or’s na­tive right;

Thrones and pow­ers be­fore Him fall

Lamb of God and Lord of all.

Time has near­ly reached its sum;

All things with the bride say

Come.

Jesus

whom all worlds ad­ore

Come

and reign for­ev­er­more.

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