Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Isaiah 33:17
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), Volume 1, number 1027.
Music: Green Fields from The Peasant Cantata (Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet), by Johann S. Bach, 1742. Arranged by Lewis Edson in The Chorister’s Companion (New Haven, Connecticut: 1782) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Alternate Tune:
I long to behold Him arrayed
With glory and light from above,
The King in His beauty displayed,
His beauty of holiest love:
I languish and die to be there
Where Jesus hath fixed His abode:
O when shall we meet in the air,
And fly to the mountain of God?
With Him I on Sion shall stand,
For Jesus hath spoken the word,
The breadth of Immanuel’s land
Survey by the light of my Lord;
But when, on Thy bosom reclined,
Thy face I am strengthened to see,
My fullness of rapture I find,
My heaven of heavens in Thee.