All My Heart This Night Rejoices - The Hymns and Carols of Christmas

All My Heart This Night Rejoices
Second Sunday in Advent
The Coming of the Day of the Lord
Johann von Rist, 1651
Source: Lyra Germanica: First Series, Songs for the Household, 1855
Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves
that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that
the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
From the Gospel
Awake,
thou careless world, awake!
The final day shall surely come;
What Heaven hath fix'd Time cannot shake,
It cannot sweep away thy doom.
Know, what the Lord Himself hath spoken
Shall come at least and not delay;
Though heaven and earth shall pass away,
His stedfast word can ne'er be broken.
Awake! He comes to judgment, wake!
Sinners, behold His countenance
In beauty terrible, and quake
Condemn'd beneath His piercing glance.
Lo! He to whom all power is given,
Who sits at God's right hand on high,
In fire and thunder draweth nigh,
To judge all nations under Heaven.
Awake, thou careless world, awake!
Who knows how soon our God shall please
That suddenly that day should break?
We fathom not such depths as these.
Oh guard thee well from lust and greed;
For as the bird is in the snare,
Or ever of its foe aware,
So comes that day with silent speed.
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