Full Lyrics
1. Hear what the voice from heaven declares
To those in Christ who die!
Released from all their earthly cares,
They reign with him on high.
2. Then why lament departed friends,
Or shake at death's alarms?
Death's but the servant Jesus sends
to call us to his arms.
3. If sin he pardoned, we're secure,
Death hath no sting beside;
The law gave sin its strength and power;
But Christ, our ransom, died!
4. The graves of all his saints he blessed,
when in the grave he lay;
And, rising thence, their hopes he raised
to everlasting day!
5. Then joyfully, while life we have,
to Christ, our life, we'll sing,
Where is thy victory, O grave?
And where, O death, thy sting?
