Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers

1Rejoice, rejoice, believers,
And let your lights appear;
The evening is advancing,
And darker night is near.

RefrainThe Bridegroom is arising
And soon the gates wide open,
The Lamb you shall behold,
We plead, O Lord, to
Up, pray and watch and wrestle,
At midnight comes the cry.
Up, up, you heirs of glory!
The Bridegroom is at hand!
In triumph cast before
Him Your diadems of gold.

2The watchers on the mountain
Proclaim the Bridegroom near;
Go, meet Him as He cometh,
With hallelujahs clear.

3You saints who here in patience
Your cross and sufferings bore,
A rise, O sun so longed for,
O'er this benighted sphere!

4Our hope and expectation,
O Jesus, now appear;
The Bridegroom is arising
And soon He draweth near.