The king of Assyria, king with fire and iron His armies like a flood across the ancient land He stood before our walls and spoke his declaration No God has ever stopped us, yours will not withstand His words fell on the city like a stone on water The people on the wall stood still and did not speak But Hezekiah heard the letter of the rapture cave And carried what he could not hold to the only one who sees He spread it in the house of the Lord before his face He pressed his hands upon it and he cried out from that place Lord, thou alone art God of all the kingdoms of the earth Now bow thine ear and hear the words that they have said An hundred fourscore and five thousand By morning they were gone One prayer went up in the darkness One angel came before the dawn The Empire sent its finest The Lord of Hosts sent one And hundred, fourscore, and five thousand And Jerusalem still stands Thus saith the Lord, he shall not enter in this city Not one arrow shall he shoot within her gate He shall not come before her with a shield or a seed work For I will defend this city for my name So when the camp fell silent in the watches of the knights No trumpet and no battle cry, no warning and no sound And hundred fourscore and five thousand men of Assyria By the angel of the Lord laid down He spread it in the house of the Lord before his face He pressed his hands upon it and he cried out from that place Lord, thou alone art God of all the kingdoms of the earth Now bow thine ear and hear the words that they have said And hundred fourscore and five thousand By morning they were gone One prayer went up in the darkness One angel came before the dawn The empire sent its finest The Lord of hosts sent one An hundred, fourscore, and five thousand And Jerusalem still stands What hath he purposed and who shall turn it back? What his hand hath stretched out, and who shall turn it back? He hath spoken, and it shall come to pass He hath purposed, and it shall stand Sennacherib arose, and he departed He returned to Nineveh, and came no more again For the word of the Lord stood over every kingdom As it stood that night, and as it standeth still And hundred four score And hundred four score And hundred four score And five thousand Goal Oh And hundred fourscore and five thousand By morning they were gone One prayer went up in the darkness One angel came before the dark The empire sent its finest The Lord of hosts at one And hundred fourscore and five thousand And Jerusalem still stands Jerusalem still stands Still stands Still stands Jerusalem still stands