Explore "Luke 22: 31-–-32" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: "Simon beware," the Saviour said --
Satan, your subtle foe, / Already has his measures laid / Your soul to overthrow.
II: "He wants to sift you all as wheat, / And thinks his vict'ry sure; / But I his malice will defeat --
My pray'r shall faith secure."
III: Believers, tremble and rejoice, / Your help and danger view; / This warning has to you a voice, / This promise speaks to you.
IV: Satan beholds with jealous eye / Your privilege and joy; / He's always watchful, always nigh, / To tear and to destroy.
V: But Jesus lives to intercede, / That faith may still prevail; / He will support in time of need, / And Satan's art shall fail.
VI: Yet let us not the warning slight, / But watchful still be found; / Though faith cannot be slain in fight, / It may receive a wound.
VII: While Satan watches dare we sleep?
We must our guard maintain; / But, Lord, do thou the city keep, / Or else we watch in vain.