Hymn 73

1. Lo, what a glorious sight appeared
   before admiring eyes:
   the former seas had passed away,
   the former earth and skies.
   From heav’n the new Jerus’lem came,
   for Christ as bride prepared.
   A voice resounding from the throne
   these wondrous things declared:
   
   
2. “Now God in glory down to men
   has moved his blest abode.
   He dwells with them; his people they,
   and he his people’s God.
   His gracious hand shall wipe the tears
   from every weeping eye,
   for pain and grief shall be no more,
   and death itself shall die.”
   
   
3. The One who sat upon the throne
   said, “I make all things new!
   Write down the words that you have heard,
   for they are firm and true.
   It is all done! Lo, by my power
   is paradise restored.
   I am the First, and I the Last,
   the one eternal Lord.
   
   
4. “Come, all who thirst! To you I will
   my healing waters give.
   Drink from my fountain without price
   and so forever live.
   Blest is the man who, conquering,
   his heritage has won,
   for I will be his faithful God,
   and he shall be my son.
   
   
5. “As for the vile and faithless ones,
   those who my will defy,
   they, flung into the burning lake,
   the second death shall die.”
   We, too, shall stand before the throne;
   then shall our names be found
   recorded in the book of life.
   How shall our joy abound!