What evil thing is this ye do,
Who God’s peculiar day prophane,
Your calling’s common works pursue,
Your journeys, sports, or pleasures vain?
Ye buy—the curse of God! Ye sell—
Your souls to sin, the world, and hell!
What evil thing is this ye do
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “What evil thing is this that ye do, and prophane the sabbath-day?”—[Nehemiah] xiii. 17. 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 227.
Publishing: Public Domain