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Herr, unser Gott, dich loben wir, O großer Gott, wir danken dir

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1 Herr unser Gott dich loben wir!
O großer Gott, wir danken dir!
Dich Vater, Gott von Ewigkeit,
der Weltkreis ehret weit und breit!

2 All Engel und des Himmels Heer,
und was da dienet deiner Ehr,
die Cherubim und Seraphim
lobsingen stets mit froher Stimm:

3 Hochheilig ist der große Gott,
Jehovah, der Herr Zebaoth!
Ja heilig, heilig, heilig heißt
Jehovah, Vater, Sohn und Geist.

4 Dein göttlich Macht und Herrlichkeit
geht über Himm'l und Erde weit.
Der heiligen Apostel Zahl,
und die lieben Propheten all;

5 Die theuren Märt'rer allzumal
dich loben stets mit großem Schall.
Die ganze werthe Christenheit
rühmt dich auf Erden weit und breit.

6 Dich, Vater, Gott, im höchsten Thron,
und deinen eingebornen Sohn,
den heilgen Geist und Tröster werth,
mit gleichem Dienst sie lobt und ehrt.

7 Du höchster König, Jesu Christ,
des Vaters ewger Sohn du bist;
du warbst ein Mensch, der Herr ein Knecht,
zu reiten das menschlich Geschlecht.

8 Du hast dem Tod zerstört sein macht,
zum Himmelreich die Christen bracht.
Du sitzst zur Rechten Gottes gleich
mit aller Ehr ins Vaters Reich.

9 Ein Richter du zukünstig bist
Alles, was lobt und lebend ist.
Nun hilf uns, Herr, den Dienern dein,
die durch dein Blut erlöset sein!

10 Laß uns im Himmel haben Theil
mit den Heilgen am ewgen Heil!
Hilf deinem Volk, Herr Jesu Christ,
und segne was dein Erbtheil ist!

11 Beschirm dein Kirch zu aller Zeit
erheb sie hoch in Ewigkeit!
Täglich, Herr Gott, wir loben dich,
und danken dir, Herr, stetiglich.

12 Behüt uns Herr, o treuer Gott,
vor aller Sünde und Missethat!
Sei gnädig uns, o Herre Gott!
Sei gnädig uns in aller Noth!

13 Zeig uns deine Barmherzigkeit,
dein guter Geist uns stets begleit;
wir hoffen auf dich lieber Herr,
in Schanden laß uns nimmermehr.



Source: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #20

Author: Burkhard Wiesenmeyer

Wiesenmeyer, Burchard, was a native of Helmstadt, and died at Petershagen (probably Petershagen near Alt-Landsberg), apparently before 1691. He was from 1637 to 1644, and probably somewhat longer, one of the masters in the Greyfriars Gymnasium at Berlin. (Koch, iii. 341; M. Michael Schirmer. By Dr. J. F. Bachmann, Berlin, 1859, p. 220, &c.) He assisted in preparing the two hymn-books which his colleague at Berlin, Johann Crüger (p. 271, Nos. 1, 4), issued in 1640 and 1653. To these he contributed a few recasts of earlier hymns. The only one translation into English is noted at p. 1091, i. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

Author: Johann Heermann

Johann Heermann's (b. Raudten, Silesia, Austria, 1585; d. Lissa, Posen [now Poland], 1647) own suffering and family tragedy led him to meditate on Christ's undeserved suffering. The only surviving child of a poor furrier and his wife, Heermann fulfilled his mother's vow at his birth that, if he lived, he would become a pastor. Initially a teacher, Heermann became a minister in the Lutheran Church in Koben in 1611 but had to stop preaching in 1634 due to a severe throat infection. He retired in 1638. Much of his ministry took place during the Thirty Years' War. At times he had to flee for his life and on several occasions lost all his possessions. Although Heermann wrote many of his hymns and poems during these devastating times, his persona… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Herr, unser Gott, dich loben wir, O großer Gott, wir danken dir
Author: Johann Heermann
Author: Burkhard Wiesenmeyer
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Suggested tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH

Tune

DUKE STREET

First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…

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OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

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Timeline

Instances

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Das Geistliche Saitenspiel #229

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Deutsches Gesang- und Choralbuch #a21

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Deutsches Gesangbuch #21

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Deutsches Gesangbuch #21

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Deutsches Gesangbuch #20

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Die Psalmen Davids #535

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Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #20

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch mit vierstimmigen Melodien #250[32]

Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft für öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesdienst #d329

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Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft #31

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Gesangbuch für deutsche Gemeinden #23

Harfen-Klaenge #d100

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Neuestes Gemeinschaftliches Gesangbuch #594

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