| 1On Jordan’s banks the Baptist’s cry
 Announces that the Lord is nigh;
 Awake and hearken, for he brings
 Glad tidings of the King of kings!
 2Then cleansed be every life from sin;
 Make straight the way for God within,
 And let us all our hearts prepare
 For Christ to come and enter there.
 3We hail You as our Savior, Lord,
 Our refuge and our great reward;
 Without Your grace we waste away
 Like flow’rs that wither and decay.
 4Stretch forth Your hand, our health restore,
 And make us rise to fall no more;
 Oh, let Your face upon us shine
 And fill the world with love divine.
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On Jordan's Banks the Baptist's Cry