Ach Gott, in Gnaden von uns wend

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Ach Gott, in Gnaden von uns wend

Author: Bartholomaüs Ringwaldt
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 Ach Gott in Gnaden von uns wend
dies größe Kreuz und groß Elend,
damit wir sind ergeben gar,
und stehn all Augenblick in G'fahr.

2 Behüt uns, deine Kinderlein,
um Christi unsers Herren Pein,
vor Pestilenz und schnellem Tod,
und laß uns nicht in dieser Noth.

3 In dieser Noth ach laß uns nicht;
wend von uns deine'n Zorn und Gericht,
das dir lobsinge unser Mund
für deinen Schutz aus Herzensgrund.

Source: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #544

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Author: Bartholomaüs Ringwaldt

Bartholomew Ringwaldt was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in 1530, and was a Lutheran pastor at Langfield, in Prussia, where he died, 1598. His hymns resemble Luther's in their simplicity and power. Several of them were written to comfort himself and others in the sufferings they endured from famine, pestilence, fire and floods. In 1581, he published "Hymns for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole Year." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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