# Lord’s Day Hymn – “Death yields up his ancient reign”

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- Published: 2008-03-23T18:52:02-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“When the Last Trumpet’s Awful Voice”
 By Isaac Watts, 1707

When the last trumpet’s awful voice
 This rending earth shall shake; When opening
graves shall yield their charge And dust to life awake;

Those bodies that corrupted fell
 Shall incorrupt arise, And mortal forms shall 
spring to life Immortal in the skies.

Behold, what heavenly prophets sung
 Is now at last fulfilled; And Death yields 
up his ancient reign, And, vanquished, quits the field.

Let Faith exalt her joyful voice,
 And now in triumph sing: “O Grave, where is thy
victory? And where, O Death, thy sting?”

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