We're Marching to Zion

Come we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known.

Join in a song with sweet accord. Join in a song with sweet accord,

And thus surround the throne, and thus surround the throne.

We’re marching to Zion – beautiful, beautiful Zion.

We’re marching upward to Zion, that beautiful city of God.

UMC Hymnal No. 733 

Isaac Watts was born in 1674, the oldest of nine children.  An inquisitive and very smart child, he started learning Latin at age four, and biblical Greek and Hebrew after that.  At the age of 16, he enrolled in a private academy in London and graduated with high honors.  After graduation, he returned to his parents’ home, where he lived for the next two years.

Church attendance again became part of his life, and Isaac complained to his father about the poor quality of hymn singing by the congregation.  His father challenged him to write something better.  For over two years, Isaac turned out hymn after hymn for that small congregation.  Our hymn today was written when he was only 20 years old.

We're Marching to Zion - Gaither Music