Hannoversches Gesangb[uch], 1657. Umarbeitung von J. Heermanns Lied.
My prose translation:
1 Jesus, let Your holy wounds,
Your agony, and bitter death
Give me in all hours
Comfort in distress of body and of soul.
When something bad occurs to me,
Let me think of Your suffering
That I would well consider in my heart.
Your dread and pains.
2 [When] my corrupted flesh and blood
Want to revel gladly in lust,
Let me think that Your suffering
Must put out the fire of hell.
[When] Satan presses in on me,
Help that I take him as
[Maal] and sign of Your wounds
That he must retreat from me.
3 When the world wants to tempt me
On the wide path of sin,
You want to govern me
So that I look on
The heavy burden of Your torture
That You have endured
So that I can remain in devotion
[And] drive away every evil desire.
4 Provide for me from the juice of Your words
For everything that hurts me;
When my heart sinks within itself
Give new strength of life
So that the sweetness of Your comfort
Strengthens me in all sorrow;
Because you won salvation for me,
Because You have died for me.
5 Let me trust in Your death,
O my God and confidence;
Let me build on it securely
That I do not taste death.
Let Your dread of death
Constantly revive me mightily;
Lord, let Your death give me
Resurrection, salvation, and life.
6 Jesus, let Your holy wounds,
Your agony, and bitter death
Give me in all hours
Comfort in distress of body and of soul.
Particularly at the last end
Help that I turn to You,
Find comfort in Your wounds,
And then cheerfully conquer.
Hanover Songbook, 1657. Adaptation of J. Heermann's Song.
I couldn't find a translation for "Maal" in the second verse.
I had to rearrange a few lines in the fourth verse to get a smoother translation. I'm not sure that "juice" is the best translation for "Saft" in this context, but it's the only suggestion my dictionary provides.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to "its own melody."
In the first verse, there's a subject-verb disagreement between the verb "erschein" and the clause "wie du... littest alle Schmerzen," which acts as the subject. There's a singular subject but a plural verb, apparently so that "erschein" will rhyme with "sein" later in the verse.
I translated "Meine Seele sehen mach" at the beginning of the second verse as "My soul does see," but I'm not sure this is actually correct.
I shuffled the last two lines of the third verse to make it clear that "the heathen servants" is nominative, not accusative. If I kept the original structure, it would result in "This has tormented You, / Not the heathen servants," but this isn't quite the intended sense.
"Carry the cross behind You" in the sixth verse seems to refer to Matthew 10:38, 16:24 and Luke 9:23.
The Gesangbuch lists Sigmund Betulius as the author of this hymn and notes that the text is sung to the tune "Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod." Judging by those data, I think this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book, but it's extremely similar to "Jesus, I Will Ponder Now" (TLH #140, LW #109, LSB #440), which is credited to Sigismund von Birken.
At the time of this writing, I've just started learning the arrangement of "Jesu Leiden, Pein, und Tod" in Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch (#110), and it's very similar to "Jesu Kreuz, Leiden und Pein," the tune to which "Jesus, I Will Ponder Now" is sung.
5 Der Fromme stirbt, so recht und richtig wandelt;
der Böse lebt, so wider Gott mißhandelt;
der Mensch verwirkt den Tod und ist entgangen,
Gott wird gefangen.
6 Ich war von Fuß auf voller Schand und Sünden,
bis zu der Scheitel war nichts Guts zu finden,
dafür hätt ich dort in der Höllen müssen
ewiglich büßen.
7 O große Lieb, o Lieb ohn alle Maße,
die dich gebracht auf diese Marterstraße!
Ich lebte mit der Welt in Lust und Freuden,
und du mußt leiden.
8 Ach, großer König, groß zu allen Zeiten,
wie kann ich gnugsam solche Treu ausbreiten!
Kein menschlich Herze mag ihm dies ausdenken,
was dir zu schenken.
9 Ich kanns mit meinem Sinnen nicht erreichen,
mit was doch dein Erbarmen zu vergleichen;
wie kann ich dir denn deine Liebesthaten
im Werk erstatten?
10 Doch ist noch etwas, das dir angenehme:
Wenn ich des Fleisches Lüste dämpf und zähme,
daß sie aufs neu mein Herze nicht entzünden
mit alten Sünden.
11 Weil aber dies nicht steht in eignen Kräften,
dem Kreuze die Begierden anzuheften,
so gib mir deinen Geist, der mich regiere,
zum Guten führe.
12 Alsdann so werd ich deine Huld betrachten,
aus Lieb an dich die Welt für nichtes achten.
Ich werde mich bemühen, deinen Willen
stets zu erfüllen.
13 Ich werde dir zu Ehren alles wagen,
kein Kreuz nicht achten, keine Schmach, noch Plagen,
nichts von Verfolgung, nichts von Todesschmerzen
nehmen zu Herzen.
14 Dies alles, obs für schlecht zwar ist zu schätzen,
wirst du es doch nicht gar bei Seite setzen.
In Gnaden wirst du dies von mir annehmen,
mich nicht beschämen.
15 Wenn dort, Herr Jesu, wird vor deinem Throne
auf meinem Haupte stehn die Ehrenkrone,
da will ich dir, wenn alles wird wohl klingen,
Lob und Dank singen.
Johann Herrmann, 1630.
(Nach Augustinus.)
My prose translation:
1 Dearest Jesus, what crime have You committed
That one has spoken such a sharp sentence?
What is [Your] guilt? In what sort of misdeeds
Are You involved?
2 You are scoffed at, beaten, and mocked,
Scourged and crowned with sharp thorns,
As one hung You on the cross,
You are made to drink vinegar.
3 What is the cause of all such torment?
Oh, my sins have beaten You!
I, O Lord Jesus, am to be blamed for this
That You suffer.
4 Yet how marvelous is this punishment!
The good Shepherd suffers for the sheep;
The Lord, the righteous one, pays for the guilt,
For His servants.
5 The pious one, who walks well and properly, died;
The evil one, who mistreats God, lives;
Man avoids death and escapes;
God is caught.
6 From head to toe I was full of shame and sin;
From top to bottom there were nothing good to be found
Therefore in hell I would have to
Suffer eternally.
7 O great love, O love without any measure,
Which brought You to this street of torture!
I lived with the world in desire and pleasure,
And You have to suffer.
8 Oh, great King, great in all times,
How can I sufficiently spread such faithfulness!
No human heart can think
What to give You for this.
9 With my mind I cannot reach it
With which to compare Your compassion;
How then for Your acts of love
Can I repay You in works?
10 Yet there is something that I have taken on for You:
When I suppress and curb desires of the flesh
So that they do not enflame my heart once again
With old sins.
11 But since this doesn't stand within my powers,
To pin my desires to the cross,
Give me Your Spirit, Who rules me
[And] leads me to good.
12 So then I will consider Your grace;
Out of love for You, value the world as nothing.
I will make an effort
Constantly to fulfill Your will.
13 I will venture everything in honor for You;
Ignore no cross; take to heart no humiliation nor plague,
Nothing of persecution,
Nothing of the pains of death.
14 All this, whether for bad, is yet to be valued;
You will not set it to the side at all.
In mercy, You will accept this from me,
Not to shame me.
15 When there, Lord Jesus, before Your throne,
The crown of honor will stand on my head;
There, when everything will sound well, I want
To sing praise and thanks to You.
Johann Herrmann, 1630.
(After Augustinus.)
All of the sources I lookt at translate verwirken as forfeit, but that doesn't really fit the context here (in the fifth verse), so I went with avoid instead. I also translated the phrases "so recht und richtig" and "so wider Gott mißhandelt" as relative clauses ("who walks well and properly" and "who mistreats God"), although I think they have a different structure, technically.
I was a bit more free with my translations of the phrases "von Fuß auf" and "bis zu der Scheitel" in the sixth verse. Literally, these are "from foot up" and "up to the top," but I translated them as "from head to toe" and "from top to bottom."
I had to re-arrange the second half of the thirteenth verse so that the list of direct objects follows the verb instead of precedes it.
This hymn appears as "O Dearest Jesus, What Law Hast Thou Broken" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#143) and The Lutheran Service Book (#439) and, in an abbreviated form, as "O Dearest Jesus, What Law Have You Broken" in Lutheran Worship (#119).
According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to "its own melody," and this is the tune the text is paired with in all three hymnals. Here's the arrangement from TLH:
Aus dem Plönischen Gesangbuch, 1676. Umarbeitung von T. Clausnitzers Lied.
My prose translation:
1 Lord Jesus, let Your dread and torment
And Your distressed suffering
Always be before my eyes
In order to avoid sin.
Let me think on Your great distress
And Your severe, bitter death,
While I live.
2 Let the hell-anguish of Your soul,
Your blood-clotted sweating
And the rest of the misery altogether,
In which You had to sit
Often occur to me
And be a strong warning
Against several misdeeds.
3 All the wounds that You have,
I have helpt to strike You,
Also my great burden of sin
Placed upon You to carry.
Oh, dear Savior, spare me,
Let this guilt be forgotten;
Let mercy be in place of justice.
4 You have left Your throne
Are gone into misery,
Endured blows, mockery, and scorn,
Had to hang on the cross
So that for us You would find a way
And with God would reconcile
Our severe misdeeds.
5 Therefore in gratitude I now want
To sing praises to You from the heart,
And if in the future You
Will bring me to salvation,
Then I will even much more,
Together with the whole host of Heaven,
Eternally praise You for it.
6 Lord Jesus, let Your dread and torment
And Your distressed suffering
Be my last refuge
When I should leave from here.
Oh help, that through Your death
I peacefully end my misery
And die blessedly, Amen.
From the Plönischen (?) Songbook, 1676. Adaptation of T. Clausnitzer's Song.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, it's sung to the tune "Herr Jesu Christ, du h."
I translated "Zornesruthen" in the second verse as "quelling of wrath," but I don't know if that's an accurate translation.
Especially in the fifth, sixth, and tenth verses, I had to move some things around in order to get a smoother English translation.
The image of "the heat of the sun hit[ting] me" in the ninth verse seems to come from Psalm 121:6, and "find[ing] my rest with You" seems to refer to Matthew 11:28.
This hymn appears (in an abbreviated form) as "A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#142) and The Lutheran Service Book (#438) and as "A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly" in Lutheran Worship (#111). The Gesangbuch notes that the text is sung to the tune "An Wasserflüssen Babylon," and that's also the tune it's paired with in these hymnals. Here the TLH arrangement:
And here's the arrangement from Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch:
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to the tune "Nun laßt uns den Leib beg[raben]." Here's an arrangement from Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch:
I'm not too sure of my translation of the final couplet of each verse or the lines "God prizes His urge of love / When it foresees of the handwriting for me" ("Gott preist seine Liebestriebe, / wenn mir von der Handschrift ahnt") in the fourth verse.
The third verse seems to reference Psalm 22:6: "But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people."
Part of the fifth verse is based on Romans 8:38-39: "38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to the tune "Werde munter, mein Gem." Here's the TLH arrangement:
I'm not sure if it's related, but there is also a tune called "Der am Kreuz," which has the same meter (87 87 77 88):
Hannoverisches Gesangb., 1646. Umdictung von Joh. Böschensteins Lied aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.
My prose translation:
1 When Jesus on the cross
Took the sin of the whole world on Himself,
He spoke in His sufferings
Yet seven words that let us
Consider well in our hearts.
2 For the first: Father do not punish them
For what is done to Me now
Because they do not understand it.
Forgive us, God, when we also
Still do something out of wrong.
3 For the second, He thought of the thief:
Truly, yet before the night You will
Live in My kingdom to-day.
O Lord, take us also soon to You,
We who hang in misery.
4 For the third: Woman, behold your son!
John, remain in service to her
And love her as a mother.
Lord, provide for those we leave here,
That no one grieves them.
5 For the fourth, He said: I thirst!
O Jesus, great Prince of Life,
You have thirst and desire
For our salvation, therefore help
That we also receive it.
6 For the fifth: O my God, my God!
How do You leave Me so in distress?
Here will You, Lord, leave
That God again receives us there.
Let us grasp well the comfort.
7 For the sixth: With this it is finished,
And now all made good.
Grant that we also pull through
And what You assign to us, Lord
Help blessedly to accomplish.
8 For the seventh: My soul,
O God, My Father, I commend to You,
To Your faithful hands.
May this word be our last wish
When we end life.
9 He who has often thought on these words
When his misdeed ails him,
Will well enjoy it,
For he through God's mercy
Attains a clear conscience.
10 Grant us this, Lord Jesus Christ,
You Who have died for us.
Grant that Your wounds,
Your suffering, torture, cross, and death
We consider at all hours.
Hannover Songbook, 1646. Paraphrase of Joh. Böschenstein's song from the 15th century.
This hymn appears as "Our Blessed Savior Seven Times Spoke" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#177) and, in an abbreviated form, as "From Calvary's Cross I Heard Christ Say" in Lutheran Worship (#108).
According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to the tune "Da Jesus an dem Kreuze." Here are two arrangements from Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch:
There's also a third arrangement (#97), but I haven't gotten that far in posting the tunes yet.
In both The Lutheran Hymnal and Lutheran Worship, the text is sung to the tune "Da Jesus an des Kreuzes," which is fairly similar. Here's the TLH arrangement:
This is the first hymn in a new section: "Passions-Lieder oder Lieder vom Leiden und Sterben Jesu Christi." "Passion Songs or Songs of the Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ."
German text in the Gesangbuch:
Christe, du Lamm Gottes,
der du trägst die Sünd der Welt,
erbarm dich unser!
Christe, du Lamm Gottes,
der du trägst die Sünd der Welt,
erbarm dich unser!
Christe, du Lamm Gottes,
der du trägst die Sünd der Welt,
gib uns dein Frieden! Amen.
Spangenbergs Kirchengesangbuch, 1545.
My prose translation:
Christ, You Lamb of God,
You Who carry the sin of the world,
Have mercy on us!
Christ, You Lamb of God,
You Who carry the sin of the world,
Have mercy on us!
Christ, You Lamb of God,
You Who carry the sin of the world,
Give us Your peace! Amen.
Spangenberg's Church Songbook, 1545.
Most of this text comes straight from John 1:29 where John the Baptist says, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" The line "Give us Your peace" may refer to the first part of John 14:27 where Jesus says, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."
This hymn appears as "O Christ, Thou Lamb of God" in The Lutheran Hymnal (#147). It also appears in Lutheran Worship (p. 151, 172, 191) and in The Lutheran Service Book (p. 163, 180, 198), but in those hymnals, it's part of the liturgy. The Gesangbuch notes that the text is sung to "its own melody," which is how it appears in TLH. LW and LSB each have multiple different melodies for the text, but the one that corresponds to TLH #147 is on page 151 in LW and on page 198 in LSB.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to the tune "O Herre Gott, dein göttlich [Wort]." Here's the arrangement from TLH:
And here's the arrangement from Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch:
There's quite a bit in the seventh verse (particularly near the end) and the tenth verse that I'm not too confident about.
The beginning of the sixth verse ("He is chosen by God / For the high priesthood") seems to refer to Hebrews 5. The title "Saron's schönste Blum" at the end of the verse is literally "Sharon's most beautiful flower," but since it's a reference to Song of Solomon 2:1 where the title is "a rose of Sharon," that's how I translated it: "Sharon's most beautiful rose."
Part of the eighth verse seems to be patterned on Philippians 2:10-11: "10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." The last line, though, seems to come from Psalm 113:3: "From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised!"
The first couple lines of the ninth verse ("His throne must last eternally; / His scepter stands firmly") bear some resemblance to Hebrews 1:8 (quoting Psalm 45:6): "But of the Son he says, 'Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.'"
I think the line "He tests heart and kidneys," in the twelfth verse refers to a Hebrew idiom. The last line of the verse ("Those who deny themselves") seems to come from Matthew 16:24 ("Then Jesus told his disciples, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.'") or Luke 9:23 ("And he said to all, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.'").
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 "Herr Christ, der einig G[ottes Sohn]." Here's the arrangement from Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch:
This is the first hymn in a new section: "Lieder am Fest der Verkündigung Mariä. (Am 25. März.)" Songs for the Feast of the Annunciation of Mary (on 25 March)
German text in the Gesangbuch:
Freu dich, du werthe Christenheit,
dies ist der Tag des Herren,
der Anfang unsrer Seligkeit,
den Gott zu seinen Ehren
nach seinem Rath
erwählet hat: o Gott, laß wohl gelingen!
Hilf uns mit Fleiß
zu deinem Preis
ein fröhlichs Lied zu singen.
Gott ist gerecht in seinem Wort,
was er einmal zusaget,
das ist gewiß an allem Ort,
obschon die Welt verzaget;
heut Gottes Sohn,
der Gnadenthron,
zu uns auf Erd gelanget.
O Wunder groß!
Marien Schoß
den großen Gast empfanget.
Sie hört vom Engel Gabriel,
sie sollt Jesum gebären,
der ganzen Welt Immanuel,
den mächtig großen Herren.
Das Jungfräulein,
so keusch und rein,
erschrak ob der Geschichten,
doch glaubt dem Wort,
wie sie gehört,
Gott wird es wohl verrichten.
Wohl uns der gnadenreichen Zeit,
daß wir erlangt den Orden,
daß du, o Gott von Ewigkeit,
bist unser Bruder worden.
Wir bitten dich
demüthliglich:
lehr uns deim Wort vertrauen,
bis wir zugleich
im Himmelreich
das Wunderwerk anschauen.
Petrus Hagius, +1620.
My prose translation:
Rejoice, you dear Christendom;
This is the day of the Lord,
The beginning of our salvation,
Which God to His glory
According to His counsel
Has chosen:
O God, let it well succeed!
Help us with diligence
To Your praise
Sing a cheerful song.
God is righteous in his Word;
What once He promised
That is certain in every place,
Although the world despairs;
To-day God's Son,
The throne of mercy,
Reaches us on earth.
O wonder great!
Mary's womb
Receives the great guest.
She hears from the angel Gabriel
She should give birth to Jesus,
Immanuel for the whole world,
The mighty, great Lord;
The virgin,
So chaste and pure,
Startled on account of the story
Yet believes the words,
As she hears,
God will do it well.
For us, well being of the merciful time
That we attain the decoration
That You, O God of eternity,
Are become our Brother.
We ask You
Humbly:
Teach us to believe Your Word
Until together we
In Heaven
Look at the miracle.
Petrus Hagius, +1620.
There's not too much of a resemblance between the original texts, but "Rejoice, you dear Christendom; / This is the day of the Lord" ended up a bit similar to Psalm 118:24: "This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."
"Startled" may be too weak of a translation for "erschrak" in the third verse, but I felt that "scared" had too much of a negative connotation.
I'm not too confident in my translation of the first few lines of the fourth verse. I couldn't really tell what part of speech "Wohl" is. I translated it as a noun because that seemed to make the most sense in this context, but it can also be an adjective or an adverb (normally, as an adjective or adverb, the word wouldn't be capitalized, but here it starts the line). Much of the time, I'm not sure how to translate "wohl" anyway. Of my dictionaries suggestions for "Orden," "decoration" was the best, but I'm not sure that this really fits the context.
As far as I can tell, this hymn isn't in The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship, or The Lutheran Service Book. According to the Gesangbuch, the text is sung to the tune "Durch Adams Fall ist ganz." Here's the arrangement from Telemann's Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch: