with grateful hearts our voices raise
that angel hosts you did create
around your glorious throne to wait.
They shine with light and heav'nly grace
and constantly behold your face.
They heed your voice, they know it well;
in godly wisdom they excel.
They never rest nor sleep as we;
their whole delight is but to be
with you, Lord Jesus, and to keep
your little flock, your lambs and sheep.
The ancient dragon is their foe;
his envy and his wrath they know.
It always is his aim and pride
your Christian people to divide.
As he of old deceived the world
and into sin and death has hurled,
so now he subtly lies in wait
to undermine both Church and state.
A roaring lion, round he goes,
no halt nor rest he ever knows;
he seeks the Christians to devour
and slay them by his dreadful pow'r.
But watchful is the angel band
that follows Christ on ev'ry hand
to guard his people where they go
and break the counsel of the foe.
O Lord, awaken songs of praise
for angel hosts that guard our days;
teach us to serve you and adore
as angels do forevermore.
- by Philipp Melanchthon, translated by Paul Eber
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