Come, We That Love the Lord (We're Marching to Zion)

Verse 1
Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known; (Ps. 100:1-2)
Join in a song with sweet ac­cord, (Ps. 95:1-2)
Join in a song with sweet ac­cord
And thus sur­round the throne, (Rev. 5:11-12)
And thus sur­round the throne.

Chorus
We’re march­ing to Zi­on, (Isa. 35:10, Isa. 51:11, Neh. 12:27-43)
Beautiful, beau­ti­ful Zion; (Ps. 48:2)
We’re march­ing up­ward to Zi­on,
The beau­ti­ful ci­ty of God. (Heb. 12:22)

Verse 2
The sor­rows of the mind
Be ban­ished from the place; (Isa. 35:10, Isa. 51:11)
Religion nev­er was de­signed
Religion nev­er was de­signed,
To make our plea­sures less, (Ps. 16:11, John 15:11)
To make our plea­sures less.

Verse 3
Let those re­fuse to sing,
Who nev­er knew our God;
But fa­vo­rites of the heav’n­ly King, (Ps. 149:2, especially with the common wording “But children”)
But fa­vo­rites of the heav’n­ly King
May speak their joys abroad, (Psalm 96:2-3)
May speak their joys abroad.

Verse 4
The God that rules on high,
And thun­ders when He please, (Ps. 29:3, Job 37:4-5)
Who rides up­on the stor­my sky, (Deut. 33:26, Ps. 68:33, Ps. 104:3)
Who rides up­on the stor­my sky,
And man­ages the seas, (Ps. 89:9, Ps. 107:29, Matt. 8:27, Mark 4:41, Luke 8:25)
And man­ages the seas.

Verse 5
This aw­ful God is ours,
Our Fa­ther and our Love; (Rom. 8:15, II Cor. 6:18, I John 4:16)
He will send down His heav’n­ly pow­ers,
He will send down His heav’n­ly pow­ers,
To car­ry us ab­ove, (I Thess. 4:17, Luke 16:22)
To car­ry us ab­ove.

Verse 6
There we shall see His face, (Rev. 22:4)
And nev­er, nev­er sin! (Rev. 21:27)
There, from the riv­ers of His grace,
There, from the riv­ers of His grace,
Drink end­less plea­sures in, (Ps. 36:8, Ps. 46:4)
Drink end­less plea­sures in.

Verse 7
Yea, and be­fore we rise,
To that im­mor­tal state, (I Cor. 15:53-54)
The thoughts of such amaz­ing bliss,
The thoughts of such amaz­ing bliss,
Should con­stant joys cre­ate, (I Pet. 1:8)
Should con­stant joys create.

Verse 8
The men of grace have found,
Glory be­gun be­low. (II Cor. 3:18, I Pet. 1:8)
Celestial fruits on earth­ly ground
Celestial fruits on earth­ly ground
From faith and hope may grow, (Rom. 5:2-4)
From faith and hope may grow.

Verse 9
The hill of Zi­on yields
A thou­sand sac­red sweets
Before we reach the heav’n­ly fields,
Before we reach the heav’n­ly fields,
Or walk the gold­en streets, (Rev. 21:21)
Or walk the gold­en streets.

Verse 10
Then let our songs abound, (Isa. 35:10, Isa. 51:11)
And ev­ery tear be dry; (Isa. 25:8, Rev. 7:17, Rev. 21:4)
We’re march­ing through Im­ma­nu­el’s ground,
We’re march­ing through Im­ma­nu­el’s ground,
To fair­er worlds on high,
To fair­er worlds on high.