Ye Slumbering Nations Who Have Slept a Long Night

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Lyrics from A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1841

Hymn 130
11's
1. Ye slumbering nations who have slept a long night,
Without revelation or heavenly light,
The latter day glory's beginning to dawn
Awake from your dreaming and welcome the morn.

2. Things unseen in darkness, begin to unfold,
As viewed by the ancients in visions of old,
That stone from the mountain cut out without hands,
Becoming a kingdom to fill all the lands.

3. To every nation, and people, and tongue,
A late revelation from heaven hath come,
To all it is given, and all may behold
The purpose of heaven concerning the world.

4. A last dispensation, let all the world hear,
In every nation, that saints may prepare
For that revolution it shall undergo,
The great restitution from evil and woe.

5. The call is from heaven, and hear it we must,
"The first will be last, and the last will be first;"
Go forth to the nations, and then to the Jews,
Who soon will obey it when Gentiles refuse.

6. The Jews will go forth, and the ten tribes shall come
From a land in the north, to inherit their home,
And Kings shall protect them, and Queens shall sustain
Their national rights till Messiah's blest reign

7. While Ephraim's loved children, who roam in the west,
Shall gather round Zion, and with her be blest,
When truth shall be given then peace will abound,
And the kingdom of heaven on earth will be found.