This hymn appears as "O Lord, Our Father, Thanks to Thee" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#124). As far as I can tell, it's not in Lutheran Worship or The Lutheran Service Book. The Gesangbuch notes that the text is sung to the tune "Nun freut euch, lieben Chr." and this is also the tune it's paired with in TLH:
In both the fifth and sixth verses, there's an inflected form of tun combined with an infinitive ("thut er all Sünd vergeben" and "die du uns thust beweisen"). This seems to provide emphasis, and I translated these clauses accordingly ("He does forgive all sin" and "Which You do provide for us").
The first letter of each verse is printed in bold. None of the other texts in the Gesangbuch are printed like this, but I don't know if it has significance here. The initial letters spell out HELENAG, but as far as I know, this isn't a word in German.
This hymn appears as "To God the Anthem Raising" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#112). The seventh verse is omitted, and I think the order of the fifth and sixth verses is flipt. As far as I can tell, the hymn isn't in Lutheran Worship or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to "its own melody." Here's the TLH arrangement:
I'm not quite sure how "Jubeljahr" in the fourth verse is meant to be understood. It could be a more generic use of "jubilee," or it could refer to the jubilee year detailed in Leviticus 25:8-22.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't present in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to "its own melody."
For the first two verses, I had to shuffle some of the lines around to get a smooth English translation.
I was unable to translate "fürs Pabsts Lehr" in the third verse and "fahen an" in the fourth.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't present in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to "its own melody."
I think there's a direct object left out in the first verse (it doesn't make much sense without one), so I supplied one in my translation.
I flipt the first two lines of the fifth verse so that an English translation is easier to read. Otherwise, it would have been the confusion of "That I am a child of wrath / That makes the despicable sin."
The description of the light illuminating the darkness at the beginning of the seventh verse seems to be drawn from John 1:5: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
The way, truth, and life at the beginning of the eighth verse are drawn from John 14:6.
I couldn't find a translation for "Inmittelst" at the beginning of the ninth verse. I translated it as "meanwhile," but that's a guess based on the context.
I couldn't find a translation for "unterhanden" either (in the tenth verse). The best I could come up with is "subjugate," but I'm not sure this completely fits. Also in that verse, there's a subject-verb disagreement in "das Mittel und der Schluß / wird auch durch ihn vollbracht" - plural subject but singular verb.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't present in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to the tune "O Gott, du frommer Gott," which I have not yet gotten to in any of my projects of recording hymn tunes.
In the first verse, the title "Morning Star" comes from Revelation 22:16, and the title "Lord of all Lords" may come from Revelation 19:16.
I'm not too sure of my translation of "Du kehrst in fremder Haufung ein" as "You come into strange crowds," particularly the word "Haufung," which I translated as "crowds."
Setting the limit for the sea in the eighth verse seems to refer to a similar section in Job 38:10-11, and - as I've noted with other texts - the title "Alpha and Omega" comes from Revelation 21:6, 22:13.
I didn't know what to do with "So saß ich dich" at the beginning of the eighteenth verse. Eventually, I rendered it as "So I am with You," but I don't know if that's entirely accurate.
My dictionary suggests to translate "(hin)wiederum" (in the nineteenth verse) as "on the other hand." I felt this would be confusing in the context, since the next line mentions a limb, so I translated it as "while" instead.
This hymn appears (in abbreviated form) as "We Sing, Immanuel, Thy Praise" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#108). As the Gesangbuch notes, the text is sung to the tune "Erschienen ist der herrlich."
The end of the third verse ("Who is it who can now condemn us Christians?") seems to be an echo of part of Romans 8:34: "Who is to condemn?"
This hymn appears as "We Christians May Rejoice Today" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#107). The Gesangbuch notes that the text is sung to "its own melody," but TLH pairs it with "O Jesu Christ, dein Kripplein."
mit eures Armes Macht: er kommt, er kommt mit Willen,
ist voller Lieb und Lust,
all Angst und Noth zu stillen,
die ihm an euch bewußt.
Auch dürft ihr nicht erschrecken
vor eurer Sündenschuld.
Nein! Jesus will sie decken
mit seiner Lieb und Huld.
Er kommt, er kommt den Sündern
zu Trost und wahrem Heil,
schafft, daß bei Gottes Kindern
verbleib ihr Erb und Theil.
Was fragt ihr nach dem Schreien
der Feind und ihrer Tück?
Ihr Herr wird sie zerstreuen
in einem Augenblick.
Er kommt, er kommt ein König,
dem wahrlich alle Feind
auf Erden viel zu wenig
zum Widerstande seind.
Er kommt zum Weltgerichte,
zum Fluch dem, der ihm flucht,
mit Gnad und süßem Lichte
dem, der ihn liebt und sucht.
Ach, komm, ach, komm, o Sonne!
und hol uns allzumal
zum ewgen Licht und Wonne
in deinen Freudensal.
Paul Gerhardt, 1653.
My prose translation:
How should I receive You? And how do I meet You? O Desire of all the world,
O Ornament of my soul!
O Jesus, Jesus, place
The torch for me Yourself
[So that] with it what delights You
May be known to me.
Your Zion strews for You palms
And green branches
And for You, in Psalms, I want
To encourage my mind;
My heart should blossom for You
In constant praise and exultation
And serve Your Name
As well as it can and knows [how].
What have You omitted
From my comfort and joy?
When body and soul say
In their greatest sorrow,
When the kingdom was taken from me,
Then peace and joy laugh,
Then are You, my Salvation, come
And have made me happy.
I laid in heavy bonds,
You come and make me free;
I stood in ridicule and shame,
You come and make me great
And lift me high to honor
And give me great good
That does not let itself be consumed,
As earthly wealth does.
Nothing, nothing has driven You
From the canopy of Heaven to me
But the beloved love
With which You the whole world
In its thousand plagues
And great burden of despair,
Which no mouth can express,
Have embraced so tightly.
Write that in your heart,
You heart-distressed crowd
With whom grief and pain
Accumulates more and more;
You are undaunted; you have
Help before the door: Which revives your hearts
And comforts, stands here.
You may not trouble yourselves
Nor worry day and night,
As you want to pull Him
With the strength of your poor:
He comes, He comes with volition,
Is full of love and desire
To stop all fear and misery,
Which He is aware of in you.
Also you may not be frightened
Of your guilt of sin.
No! Jesus wants to cover it
With His love and grace.
He comes, He comes to comfort the sinner
And works true salvation
So that with God's children
Remain their inheritance and share.
What do you ask of the screams
Of the enemy and their deceit?
Your Lord will scatter them
In the blink of an eye.
He comes, He comes as a king
For Whom truly all the enemies
On earth are much too little
For opposition.
He comes to the judgement of the world
To curse him who curses Him,
With mercy and sweet light
For him who loves and seeks Him.
Oh, come, oh, come, o Sun!
And take us always
To the eternal light and delight
In Your hall of joy.
Paul Gerhardt, 1653.
The last line of the first verse ("mir kund und wissend sei") is a bit redundant ("may be known and knowing to me"), and in my translation, I omitted "und wissend."
I'm not too confident in my translation of "und ich will dir in Psalmen / ermuntern meinen Sinn" as "And for You, in Psalms, I want / To encourage my mind."
In the sixth verse, there's an inexplicable switch from second person singular ("dir" "dein" "du") to second person plural ("ihr" "eure").
I'm not quite sure about "seind" in the ninth verse, but it seems to be just an altered form of "sein" or "sind" in order to rhyme with "Feind" from a previous line.
This hymn appears as "O Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#58), "O Lord, How Shall I Meet You" in Lutheran Worship (#19), and "O Lord, How Shall I Meet You" in The Lutheran Service Book (#334). The third verse in the Gesangbuch is omitted from the TLH version, and the LW and LSB versions omit even more verses.
The Gesangbuch notes that the text is sung to the tune "Valet will ich dir geben." LW and LSB pair the text with "Wie soll ich dich empfangen," but TLH has two tunes: "Valet will ich dir geben" and "Wie soll ich dich [empfangen]." Here are both of them:
In the German text, the word "König" in the eighth verse is singular ("king"), but I translated it as a plural. The plural form is "Könige," and it's likely that the final E was left off for the sake of syllable count.
I'm not too confident in my translation of the line "empfangen rein in aller Zucht" as "received purely in every culture."
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't present in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. The Gesangbuch notes that it's sung to the tune "Vom Himmel hoch da k." Here's the TLH arrangement:
The first line of the fourth verse has a subject-verb disagreement. There's a compound subject ("die Sünd und Tod" - sin and death) but a singular verb ("kann" - can). It should be können.
I'm not too confident in my translation of the last line of the fifth verse ("dem sei Trotz, ders nicht lassen kann," which I translated as "Despite this, He cannot leave it").
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't present in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. In the Gesangbuch, there's a note that the text is sung to "the previous melody," which was "Vom Himmel hoch." Here's the TLH arrangement:
Are worth nothing before You, nothing helps nor acts.
Oh, my dear Jesus,
Make for Yourself a clean, soft little bed
To rest in the shrine of my heart
So that I never forget Yours.
About this may I always be happy
To jump, sing always freely
The right Susaninne even
With gusto the sweet tone.
Praise, honor be to God on the highest throne,
Who gives to us His only Son,
Therefore the host of angels rejoices
And sings of such a new year to us.
Dr. M. Luther, 1535.
I'm not too confident in my translation of "Bis willekomm" as "By way of welcome," but it's the best I could come up with.
"Dry grass / Of which a child and donkey ate" doesn't make much sense, but I couldn't find a translation for "Kind" other than "child." Unless this means the donkey's child, but I think that would be a different word.
I'm not very confident in my translation of "das rechte Susaninne schon / mit Herzenslust den süßen Ton" as "The right Susaninne even / With gusto the sweet tone." I don't know what Susaninne is (and an internet search didn't reveal anything helpful), and I couldn't find a good translation of "Herzenslust."
This hymn appears as "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#85), Lutheran Worship (#37 and extending into #38 "Welcome to Earth, O Noble Guest"), and The Lutheran Service Book (#358). In all of these and as the Gesangbuch notes, the text is sung to "its own melody." Here's the TLH arrangement:
In the eighth verse, there's an implied subject in the line "des Herrschaft gehet überall." I'm not sure what this subject is though, so my translation ("Of power it goes all over") doesn't make much sense.
I'm not too confident in my translation of "so bald" as "even," but it's the best sense I could make of that construction.
The title "Alpha and Omega" in the eleventh verse comes from Revelation 21:6, 22:13.
The title "snake treader" ("Schlangentreter") in the fourteenth verse refers to Genesis 3:15.
Most of the text of the last verse ("To God in the highest be honor...") is taken from Luke 2:14.
As far as I can tell, this hymn doesn't appear in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. In the Gesangbuch, there's a note that the text is sung to "Vom Himmel hoch da k." Here's the TLH arrangement: