1 ""Wake, awake, for night is flying, ""
the watchmen on the heights are crying;
""Awake, Jerusalem, arise!""
Midnight's solemn hour is tolling,
His chariot wheels are nearer rolling;
He come; prepare, ye virgins wise;
Rise up with willing feet;
Go forth, the Bridegroom meet;
Alleluia!
Bear through the night your will-trimmed light,
Speed forth to join the marriage rite.

2 Zion hears the watchmen singing,
and in her heart new joy is springing.
She wakes, she rises from her gloom.
Forth her Lord comes down all-glorious
The strong in grace, in truth victorious.
Her star is risen, her light is come!
All hail, Thou precious One,
Lord Jesus, God's own Son.
Alleluia!
The follow to the nuptial hall.

3 Lamb of God, the heavens adore Thee,
and men and angles sing before Thee
with harp and cymbals' clearest tone.
By the pearly gates in wonder
We stand, and swell the voice of thunder
In bursts of choral melody.
To mortal eyes and ears
What glory now appears!
Alleluia!
We raise the song,
we swell the throng,
To praise Thee ages all a-long.