Scripture Verse

Suddenly, the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the palace wall. Daniel 5:5

Introduction

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Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

Words: Charles Wes­ley, Short Hymns (Bris­tol, Eng­land: E. Far­ley, 1762), Vol­ume 2, num­ber 1301.

Music: Me­ri­bah Low­ell Ma­son, 1839 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Lowell Mason (1792–1872)

Lyrics

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Belshazzar’s Feast
L. Caracciolo
Wikimedia Commons

Sinner se­cure, the writ­ing see!
Death, judg­ment, hell it speaks to thee;
The num­ber of thy days
Is fin­ished in a mo­ment here,
With hor­ror then thou must ap­pear
Before thy judge’s face.

Weighed in the scale, thou want­ing art,
And when thy soul and bo­dy part,
Thy guil­ty spir­it flies
From earth, with kin­dred fiends to dwell,
Condemned the se­cond death to feel,
The death that nev­er dies.