’Till by thy mighty signs compell’d,
The world, thine old Egyptian foe,
The persecutor scorns to yield,
And will not let thy people go.
Jesus appear, extort the word
From those who now thy plagues defy,
“This is the finger of the Lord,
This is the work of the Most-High!”
Till by Thy mighty signs compell’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “This is the finger of God!”—[Exod.] viii. 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 39.
Publishing: Public Domain