Hymns Based on Revelation 21:4

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.

Art Thou Weary, Heavy Laden is a later form of John Mason Neale's 1862 Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid, an English hymn based on a Greek text traditionally associated with Saint Stephen the Sabaite.

As Man and Woman We Were Made is Brian Wren’s 1973 hymn for Christian marriage.

“Be Still, My Soul” is a hymn of disciplined trust rather than emotional denial.

Beams of Heaven as I Go is Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn of pilgrimage, struggle, and durable hope.

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

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.

Carrie Ellis Breck's 1898 gospel hymn is a meditation on the Christian hope of seeing Christ without the limitations that characterize present life.

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

If Death My Friend and Me Divide is Charles Wesley’s compact meditation on Christian grief.

“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.

Nobody Knows the Trouble I See is an African American spiritual in which lament and praise occupy the same song.

O Christ, the Healer is Fred Pratt Green's prayer for wholeness in a world marked by bodily illness, inner conflict, damaged relationships, and social disorder.

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.

“O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” is a hymn of surrender grounded in the conviction that God’s love is more steadfast than the believer’s strength.

O Mary, Don't You Weep is a traditional African American spiritual shaped through oral transmission rather than the work of a known individual author or composer.

O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be is an English translation of a medieval Latin hymn by Peter Abelard that contemplates the blessed life of God's people in the heavenly Jerusalem.

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.

Safe in the Arms of Jesus is a nineteenth-century gospel hymn centered on refuge, assurance, rest, and Christian hope in the presence of suffering and death.

Savior, Blessed Savior is a hymn of consecration and Christian pilgrimage by Godfrey Thring.

“Shall We Gather at the River” is Robert Lowry’s question-and-answer song of Christian hope, written with its tune in 1864.

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

“Some Golden Daybreak” is a 1934 American gospel song centered on the promised return of Jesus Christ.

“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.

“We Shall Overcome” is a freedom song of collective hope rather than a conventional hymn by a single author.

“We’ll Understand It Better By and By” gives voice to faith when explanation is incomplete.

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 American gospel song of Christian hope.

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.