The Burning Day

SATB a cappella
Duration: 2.5 Minutes
Text: Traditional Shaker, John Lockwood, Sodus, NY
Year: 2000

Publisher: Siegfried Publishing #007-09

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  • Redeemed souls your voices raise,
    and sing His wonders o’er.
    In songs of everlasting praise
    the great I AM adore.

    To time and sense we’ll bid adieu,
    Earth’s glories we’ll despise.
    Eternal treasure we’ll pursue
    that everlasting prize.

    How fading are all earthly things,
    like shadows flee away!
    The cross substantial treasure brings,
    that never will decay.

    Ye joyful mountains skip like rams
    while Edom melts away.
    And all the little hills like lambs
    shall clap their hands and play!

    Join in their song, ye joyful souls,
    for this great burning day!
    By love we’re known in heav’n above,
    love bears our song away.

    Redeemed souls your voices raise,
    and sing His wonders o’er.
    In songs of everlasting praise
    the great I AM adore.

    On cherub’s wings your flight begins
    to leave this dark abode.
    The cross will save us all from sin
    and bring us home to God.