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 Ten 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!

Gone!

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 Jerusalem still

stands

Jerusalem still stands!