Hymns Based on Revelation 21:3

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.

Beyond the Sunset is a twentieth-century gospel song of Christian hope in the face of death.

“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.

Christ the Victorious is a modern Christian burial hymn in which the title’s language of victory is directed toward death rather than earthly conquest.

“Hark! Hark, My Soul” is a Victorian hymn of Christian pilgrimage that sets present weariness against the promised life of the world to come.

“In the Sweet By and By” is a nineteenth-century American gospel song of future hope.

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

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling is a prayer for God’s transforming love to fill human life completely.

“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.

Precious Lord, Take My Hand is a gospel prayer shaped by grief, weakness, and the need for divine guidance.

Sing with All the Saints in Glory is a nineteenth-century resurrection hymn by Anglican priest William Josiah Irons.

“Soon and Very Soon” is a gospel song of expectant Christian hope.

“Sunrise,” known by its first line “When I shall come to the end of my way,” is a gospel song of Christian hope at the approach of death.

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 All My Labors And Trials Are O'er, better known by the title O That Will Be Glory or simply the Glory Song, is a three-stanza gospel hymn about the Christian hope of being with Christ beyond death.

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

“When They Ring Those Golden Bells” is a nineteenth-century gospel song that gives musical form to longing for life with God beyond death.

When We All Get to Heaven is a late nineteenth-century gospel hymn that turns Christian hope into congregational praise.

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