Hymns Based on Revelation 21:2

'Tis the Old Ship of Zion is an African American spiritual of salvation, communal pilgrimage, deliverance, and hope.

Arise, Shine Out, Your Light Has Come is Brian Arthur Wren's 1986 hymn inspired by Isaiah 60 and its vision of a radiant restored city drawing the nations toward God's glory.

“Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation” begins where Christian teaching about the church must begin: not with a building, institution, or human leader, but with Christ.

Jerusalem the Golden gives Christian hope a city-shaped imagination.

“Marching to Zion” is the familiar gospel-song form of Isaac Watts’s 1707 hymn “Come, We That Love the Lord.

O Day of God, Draw Nigh is a prayer for God's rule to become visible in a world marked by fear, injustice, violence, and moral uncertainty.

O Holy City, Seen of John is Walter Russell Bowie's 1909 hymn on the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21–22.

On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand is Samuel Stennett's meditation on the believer's promised inheritance.

Walk On, O People of God is the English form of Cesáreo Gabaráin’s Spanish hymn “Camina, pueblo de Dios,” also associated with the title “Nueva Creación.

“When They Ring the Golden Bells” gives musical form to the Christian longing for life with God beyond death.

This 1903 city-mission hymn asks the church to hear Christ amid the pressures, inequalities, fears, and unmet needs of urban life.