Verse 1
Arise, O God, arise,
Thy people to defend,
Whom their outragious enemies
As roaring lions rend:
Break Thou the lions teeth,
And whom they now devour
Snatch from the jaws of instant death
From the Tormentor’s power.

Verse 2
While in the furnace tried,
Jesus, to them appear,
And let the presence of their Guide
Their fainting spirits chear:
The virtues of thy Name,
Miraculous to shew,
Walk with them in the lambent flame,
And bring them safely thro’.

Verse 3
The fire shall at thy word
Its burning power forget,
The men of blood their foes abhor’d
Shall with compassion treat:
Thee greater than their heart
Let but the ruffians know,
Nor curst with their own wish depart
To their own place below.

Verse 4
Receive whom we commend
To thy converting grace,
But bring to a perpetual end,
And all their crimes erase;
To make thy justice known,
To make destructions cease
Or’eturn, or’eturn, or’eturn the throne
Of prosperous wickedness.

Verse 5
The Antichristian power
May for a time remain,
But the world’s God beyond his hour
Of darkness cannot reign:
The faithful word is past,
The solemn oath Divine,
The kingdoms of the earth at last
Shall all be lost in Thine.

Verse 6
Then shall the ransom’d Seed
Return in triumph home,
With crowns of joy upon their head
To their Redeemer come,
Redeem’d from earth and hell
Thy praises to repeat,
And fall with bliss ineffable
Transported at thy feet.