Scripture Verse

This is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Daniel 5:25

Introduction

illustration
Belshazzar Sees the Writing
on the Wall
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)

Words: Charles Wes­ley, Short Hymns (Bris­tol, Eng­land: E. Far­ley, 1762), Vol­ume 2, num­ber 1301, pag­es 61–62.

Music: Jo­se­phine Er­nest R. Kroe­ger, 1901 (🔊 pdf nwc).

portrait
Ernest Kroeger (1862–1934)

Lyrics

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.