End Times
Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying
- Words:
- Phillipp Nicolai, 1599. Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1858.
- Music:
- 'Wachet Auf' Phillip Nicolai, 1599.
- Setting:
- "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.
- Metre:
- 8 9 8 8 9 8 6 6 4 8 8
- 1Wake, awake, for night is flying;The watchmen on the heights are crying:Awake, Jerusalem, at last!Midnight hears the welcome voicesAnd at the thrilling cry rejoices;Come forth, ye virgins, night is past;The Bridegroom comes, awake;Your lamps with gladness take;Alleluia!And for His marriage feast prepareFor ye must go and meet Him there.
- 2Zion hears the watchmen singing,And all her heart with joy is springing;She wakes, she rises from her gloom;For her Lord comes down all glorious,The strong in grace, in truth victorious.Her Star is ris'n, her Light is come.Ah come, Thou blessed One,God's own beloved Son:Alleluia!We follow till the halls we seeWhere Thou hast bid us sup with Thee
- 3Now let all the heav'ns adore Thee,And saints and angels sing before Thee,With harp and cymbal's clearest tone;Of one pearl each shining portal,Where we are with the choir immortalOf angels round Thy dazzling throne;Nor eye hath seen, nor earhath yet attained to hearWhat there is ours,but we rejoice and sing to TheeOur hymn of joy eternally.
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- The words are in 229 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Wachet Auf, is in 400 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.