O Where Are Kings and Empires Now?

O where are kings and em­pires now

Of old

that went and came?

But Lord

Thy Church is pray­ing yet

Two thou­sand years the same.

We mark her good­ly bat­tle­ments

And her foun­da­tions strong;

We hear

with­in

the so­lemn voice

Of her un­end­ing song.

For not like king­doms of the world

Thy ho­ly Church

O God

Though earth­quake shocks are threat­en­ing her

And tem­pests are abroad.

Unshaken as eter­nal hills

Immovable she stands

A mount­ain that shall fill the earth

A house not made by hands.