Kingdom Come

Tune: Webb

('Stand up, stand up for Jesus')

Daniel 5 v.31-32

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Babylon's time came, downfall

For one the Lord did call

Cyrus the Great, the Persian

He was the chosen one

To lead his army forward

Each heart to battle stirred

At God's command, He Sovereign

Through Him the victory won

 

It be impenetrable?

It be impregnable?

Great city full of evil

Thought it would go on still

For ever and for ever

And thinking so never

That they would be o'ercome there

But disaster their share

 

Consider fortifyings

Of this city, these things

Walled part was sixty mile round

With pride it did redound

One hundred [and] fifty feet high

How could one there draw nigh?

And eighty-seven feet thick

With solid stone and brick

 

See there upon the wall high

Four chariots go by

They four could fit abreast there

Space did not lack, impair

And round the wall a moat see

Thirty feet wide it be

Fresh water from Euphrates

Gave drink to the thirsty

 

But Persian army, they staid

Another canal made

To diver water, and so

A way in they did know

So there by God strong guided

A defeat they did bring

To each Babylonian

God Sovereign, He alone

 

For they too fed and sated

Supplies ne'er abated

Twenty years food was in store

They could not ask for more

Though so great, not long forbears

[Only] Around seventy years

Their days of power ended

They too much offended