Rejoice, O Earth, Your Redemption Draws Near

Lyrics

• Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics from A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1845

Hymn 83
1. Rejoice, O earth, your redemption draws near,
Your Savior is coming, he soon will appear,
With clouds you will see him descending the sky,
Behold him! behold him! O every eye.

2. The saints will rejoice, while sinners do fear,
And lift up their voice in warning so clear,
To shew to all kindred, and people, and tongue,
The great day of burning is shortly to come.

3. When all that are proud and do wicked here,
Shall in the great crowd of burning appear,
For their wicked way shall be filled in their cup,
And the burning day shall burn them all up.

4. As with the people in that dreadful day,
So with the priests too, the prophet doth say,
But few men are left, the rest they are burned,
The earth has been cursed, and long it has mourned.

5. Transgression of laws and ordinance changed,
Is the direct cause that emptied the land,
And brought on a dearth, both long and severe,
That's filled the whole earth for six thousand years.

6. The time's near fulfilled, the curse be removed,
When earth it will yield, wherever improved,
A bountiful harvest of the fruits of life,
And all then can have it without selfish strife.

7. So now we'll rejoice, exultingly sing,
And lift up our voice to Jesus our King,
Who soon will be with us, and dispel our fears,
And bless us and keep us the great thousand years.

The above lyrics modified to fit 10 10 10 10 meter

• Arranger (to fit it to the meter): Mark Hamilton Dewey (b. 1980)
• Arrangement copyright: released to the public domain by the arranger on 15 Oct 2010 Veramet 15:09, 15 October 2010 (MDT)
• Note: This versification doesn't take accents into consideration—so a better version may be made for particular songs.

1. Rejoice, O earth, your redemption draws near,
Your Savior is coming; soon will appear,
With clouds you will see descending the sky;
Behold him! behold him! O every eye.

2. The saints will rejoice, while sinners do fear,
And lift up their voice in warning so clear,
To shew to all kindred, people, and tongue,
The great day of burning shortly to come.

3. When all that are proud and do wicked here,
Shall in the great crowd of burning appear,
For their vile deeds shall be filled in their cup,
And the burning day shall burn them all up.

4. As with the people in that dreadful day,
So with the priests too, the prophet doth say,
But few men are left, the rest they are burned,
The earth has been cursed, and long it has mourned.

5. Transgression of laws and ordinance changed,
Is the direct cause that emptied the land,
And brought on a dearth, both long and severe,
That's filled the whole earth for six thousand years.

6. The time's near fulfilled, the curse be removed,
When earth it will yield, wherever improved,
A bounteous harvest of the fruits of life,
And all can have it without selfish strife.

7. So now we'll rejoice, exultingly sing,
And lift up our voice to Jesus our King,
Soon to be with us, will chase all our fears,
And bless and keep us that great thousand years.