Babylon is fallen -- four voice harmony by Intrepid Ian Riñon
Channel: Intrepid Ian Riñon
Date: 26/11/2022

In this video: As Advent approaches in a few hours (by the time of this upload), we not only remember the First Coming of Christ at Christmas. We also prepare for his Second Coming. 

This is what Advent is all about. And one of the best ways to begin Advent is to sing the old hymn "Babylon is fallen".

COMPLETE LYRICS (* - verses sung) :

*1. Hail the day so long expected!
Hail the year of full release!
Zion’s walls are now erected,
and her watchmen publish peace.
Throughout Shiloh's wide dominion,
hear the trumpet loudly roar:
   
Refrain: 
||: Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen!
Babylon is fallen to rise no more! :||

2. Hark, and hear her people crying:
“See the city disappear!
Trade and traffic all are dying!
Lo, we sink and perish here!”
Sailors who have bought her traffic,
crying from her distant shore:
   Refrain

*3. All her merchants stand with wonder:
“What is this that comes to pass?”
Murm’ring like the distant thunder
crying, "O Alas! Alas!"
Swell the sound, ye kings and nobles,
priests and people, rich and poor:
   Refrain

4. Lo, the captives are returning!
Up to Zion see them fly!
While the smoke of Babel’s burning
rolls across the darken’d sky!
Days of mourning now are ended,
years of bondage now are o’er!
   Refrain

5. Zion’s children raise your voices,
and the joyful news proclaim!
How the heavenly host rejoices!
Shout and echo back the same!
See the ancients of the city,
terrified at the uproar!
   Refrain

6. Tune your harps, ye heavenly choir!
Shout, ye foll’wers of the Lamb!
See the city all on fire!
Clap your hands and blow the flame!
Now’s the day of compensation
on the scarlet colour’d whore;
   Refrain

*7. Blow the trumpet in Mount Zion! 
Christ is come a second time,
ruling with a rod of iron!
All who now as foes combine. 
Babel's garments we've rejected, 
and her fellowship is o'er!
   Refrain

Recorded 26 November 2022, Last Day of Liturgical Year 2022

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