Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt

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Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt!

Author: William Kethe (1561); Translator: Cornelius Becker (1602); Alterer: David Denicke (1646)
Tune: [Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt!]
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1 Nun jauchzt dem Herren alle Welt!
Kommt her, zu seinem Dienst euch stellt,
kommt mit Frohlocken, säumet nicht,
kommt vor sein heilig Angesicht.

2 Erkennt, daß Gott ist unser Herr,
der uns erschaffen ihm zur Ehr,
und nicht wir selbst: durch Gottes Gnad
ein jeder Mensch sein Leben hat.

3 Er hat uns ferner wohl bedacht
und uns zu seinem Volk gemacht;
zu Schafen, die er ist bereit,
zu führen stets auf gute Weid.

4 Die ihr nun wollet bei ihm sein,
kommt, geht zu seinen Toren ein
mit Loben durch der Psalmen Klang,
zu seinem Vorhof mit Gesang.

5 Dankt unserm Gott, lobsinget ihm,
rühmt seinen Namen mit lauter Stimm;
lobsingt und danket allesamt!
Gott loben, das ist unser Amt.

6 Er ist voll Güt und Freundlichkeit,
voll Lieb und Treu zu jeder Zeit;
sein Gnad währt immer dort und hier
und seine Wahrheit für und für.

7 Gott Vater in dem höchsten Thron
und Jesus Christus, sein ein'ger Sohn,
samt Gott, dem werten Heilgen Geist,
sei nun und immerdar gepreist.

Source: Antwort Finden in alten und neuen Liedern, in Worten zum Nachdenken und Beten: evangelisches Gesangbuch (Bayern, Mitteldeutschland, Thüringen) #288

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Author: William Kethe

William Kethe (b. Scotland [?], d. Dorset England, c. 1594). Although both the time and place of Kethe's birth and death are unknown, scholars think he was a Scotsman. A Protestant, he fled to the continent during Queen Mary's persecution in the late 1550s. He lived in Geneva for some time but traveled to Basel and Strasbourg to maintain contact with other English refugees. Kethe is thought to be one of the scholars who translated and published the English-language Geneva Bible (1560), a version favored over the King James Bible by the Pilgrim fathers. The twenty-five psalm versifications Kethe prepared for the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561 were also adopted into the Scottish Psalter of 1565. His versification of Psalm 100 (All People that… Go to person page >

Translator: Cornelius Becker

Becker, Cornelius, son of Adrian Becker, merchant of Leipzig, was born at Leipzig, Oct. 24, 1561. After studying at the University, where he graduated 1584, he kept a private school till his appointment, in the beginning of 1588, as one of the masters of the St. Thomas School, a post he vacated in Sept., 1588. on being appointed diaconus at Rochlitz. In 1592 he became diaconus, and in 1594, pastor of the church of St. Nicholas, Leipzig; and subsequently Professor of Theology in the University, from which, in 1599, he received the degree of D.D. On account of false accusations he was deprived of his charge on June 5, 1601, but was vindicated and restored on Nov. 29 following. He died suddenly at Leipzig, May 25, 1604 (Koch, ii. 219-223; Allg… Go to person page >

Alterer: David Denicke

Denicke, David, son of B. D. Denicke, Town Judge of Zittau, Saxony, was born at Zittau, January 31, 1603. After studying philosophy and law at the Universities of Wittenberg and Jena, he was for a time tutor of law at Königsberg, and, 1624-1628, travelled in Holland, England and France. In 1629 he became tutor to the sons of Duke Georg of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and under father and sons held various important offices, such as, 1639, the direction of the foundation of Bursfeld, and in 1642 a member of the Consistory at Hannover. He died at Hannover, April 1, 1680 (Koch, iii. 237; Bode, p. 58). His hymns, which for that time were in good taste, and are simple, useful, warm, and flowing, appeared in the various Hannoverian hymnbooks, 1646-1659,… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt!
Title:	Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt
English Title:	All people that on earth do dwell
Alterer:	David Denicke (1646)
Author:	William Kethe (1561)
Translator:	Cornelius Becker (1602)
Source:	Strophe 7 Lüneburg 1652
Language:	German
Notes:	English translation: "O praise the Lord now, all ye lands" by J. T. Mueller; Polish translation: See "Niech w Panu się raduje ṡwiat" by Edward Romański;
Copyright:	Public Domain