From Babel to Zion

Verse 1

Now to the holy city The faithful gather home; To Zion’s mount of glory With songs of joy they come. Jerusalem the golden, Jerusalem the free, With joyful hearts and voices The ransomed come to thee.

Verse 2

Now eye to eye beholding The way-marks on the road, All bound in love together, They’re coming home to God: One mind and mouth possessing, They speak with one accord, And in the heights of Zion They shout and praise the Lord.

Verse 3

Sing glory to the Savior, High over all the world; On Zion’s heights forever His banner is unfurled. God’s church can be no longer Obscured from human sight; For see, on yonder mountain, A city filled with light!

Verse 4

No longer Babel’s bondage The bride of Christ can hold; God’s children now are holy, And free from Babel’s fold: For it is fallen, fallen, And it shall rise no more; We cling alone to Jesus, As did the saints of yore.