Rejoice, rejoice, ye fallen race, fallen from God

Verse 1
Rejoice, rejoice ye fallen race,
Fallen from God whom once ye knew,
He waits again to shew his grace,
The Lord a promise hath for you.

Verse 2
The gracious word of his command
Backsliding Israel shall restore,
And set thee in thy native land,
Whence thou shalt never wander more.

Verse 3
Strangers shall then to thee be join’d,
Shall to the house of Jacob cleave,
Adore the Saviour of mankind
Who died that all mankind might live.

Verse 4
Restor’d to thine unsinning state,
Thou at thy feet the world shalt see
As servants and as handmaids wait,
Glad to receive the law from thee.

Verse 5
The lords to whom thou bowd’st thy neck
Shall bow their neck beneath thy chain,
Thy conquerors thou shalt captive take,
And o’er thy dire oppressors reign.

Verse 6
Surely the gospel day shall come,
The Lord thy spirit shall release,
Satan shall have his final doom,
And thou from sin for ever cease.

Verse 7
From all thy grief, and pain, and fear;
Thy grief to be by sin subdued,
Thy pain the gauling yoke to bear,
Thy fear to perish in thy blood.

Verse 8
Then when the Lord hath giv’n thee rest
And breath’d the Spirit of his power,
His princely Spirit into thy breast,
And made thee more than conqueror;

Verse 9
Thou, the poor slave of Satan, thou
Shalt spurn thy old imperious king,
Vanquish’d, for ever vanquish’d now,
And thus the song triumphal sing:

Verse 10
How hath the proud oppressor ceas’d!
Fallen the height of Babel’s tow’rs,
Fallen the king who long oppress’d
The earth with all its struggling powers.

Verse 11
The world’s fierce ruler, and their god
Who bow’d the nations to his yoke,
And bruis’d them with an iron rod,
And smote with a continual stroke;

Verse 12
How hath the Lord destroy’d his power,
O’erturn’d his kingdom from within,
Ended the dark, oppressive hour,
And broke his staff of inbred sin!

Verse 13
That man of sin is now cast down
Who held the captive world in chains,
And none the cause of Satan own,
And none contend for sin’s remains.

Verse 14
All the new earth is now at rest,
From every thought of sin they cease,
Calm holy joy expands their breast,
Their mouth is fill’d with songs of peace.

Verse 15
The trees of righteousness rejoice;
Since thou art down, the cedars cry,
We hear no more the ax’s noise,
Nor tremble at the feller nigh.

Verse 16
Tophet is for the king prepar’d,
The sorest doom thy crimes require,
Hell from beneath, for thy reward,
Stirs up its everlasting fire.

Verse 17
O Lucifer, bright morning-star,
Brighter than all with thee who fell,
How art thou fall’n from glory far,
From glory to profoundest hell!

Verse 18
Reserv’d, in dark, substantial chains,
To the tremendous judgment day,
Our God shall then fill up thy pains,
Thy bruiser shall for ever slay.

Verse 19
He now thy nature hath expell’d,
And forc’d thy malice to submit,
Our sin is gone, our soul is heal’d,
And thou art bruis’d beneath our feet.

Verse 20
How art thou humbled to the ground,
The feeble world’s tyrannic lord,
In us no more thy place is found,
Slain by the Spirit’s two-edg’d sword.

Verse 21
Faded and thunder-struck thy brow,
From all thy hopes of empire driven,
Where is thy glorious vaunting now?
“I, even I will mount to heaven.

Verse 22
“Above the stars of God once more
“I will exalt my sovereign throne,
“And force his sons to own my power,
“And cast the earth-born potsherds down.

Verse 23
“I will compel them to submit
“A thorn in all his people’s side,
“I in his mount will fix my seat
“Th’ unconquerable strength of pride.

Verse 24
“I in their hearts will still remain,
“Will have my party still within,
“My throne immoveable maintain,
“My kingdom of inbeing sin.

Verse 25
“The soul of man shall be my shrine,
“And entertain my deity,
“That temple built by hands divine
“My everlasting home shall be.

Verse 26
“Above the clouds I will aspire,
“I will aspire, and scale the sky,
“Higher than men, than angels higher,
“And bold to rival the Most High.”

Verse 27
Yet shalt thou be brought down to hell,
O Antichrist, thy day shall come,
In us thou shalt not always dwell,
The judge shall quickly seal thy doom.

Verse 28
Is this the man of hellish birth
(Thy former vassals then shall say)
Who shook the kingdoms of the earth,
And made the trembling world obey!

Verse 29
Who made the world a wilderness,
Laid waste the souls of all mankind,
Nor ever would his slaves release,
To sin’s eternal bonds consign’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "The Fourteenth Chapter of Isaiah. Part I." Introduced in A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems, Vol. 3, published by John Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1744). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 145.
Publishing: Public Domain