Oh What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be
Oh, what their joy and their glory must be,
Those endless Sabbaths the blessed ones see;
crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest:
God shall be all, and in all ever blest.
Truly Jerusalem name we that shore,
Vision of peace that brings hope evermore;
wish and fulfilment shall severed be ne'er,
nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.
There, where no trouble distraction can bring,
We the sweet anthems of Zion shall sing,
while for thy grace, Lord, their voices of praise
thy blessed people eternally raise.
Now, in the meantime, with hearts raised on high,
We for that country must yearn and must sigh,
seeking Jerusalem, dear native land,
through the long exile on Babylon's strand.
Low before him with our praises we fall,
Of whom, and in whom, and through whom are all;
of whom, the Father; and in whom, the Son;
through whom, the Spirit, with both ever one.
Christian Poetry by Peter Abelard
Translation by John Mason Neale
Public Domain