Text:My God, Where Shall I Wend My Flight
Alterer (stanzas 8 & 11):Compiler
Author:Menno Simons (1496-1561)
Translator:Leonard Verduin
Tune:EIN TREUER ZEUGE
Arranger:John J. Overholt

424. My God, Where Shall I Wend My Flight

Text Information
First Line: My God, where shall I wend my flight? (Mijn God waer sal ic henen gaen)
Title: My God, Where Shall I Wend My Flight
Dutch Title: Mijn God waer sal ic henen gaen
Author: Menno Simons (1496-1561) (c. 1540)
Translator: Leonard Verduin (1955)
Alterer (stanzas 8 & 11): Compiler (1971)
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8.
Language: Dutch; English
Publication Date: 1972
Scripture:
Topic: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; The Church: Hymns of Martyrs
Source: THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF MENNO SIMONS, edited by John Christian Wenger, Text of hymn from
Copyright: Copyright 1956 by Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pa. Used by permission. Sts. 8, 11, altered by permission.; Stanzas 8, 11 Text Copyright © 1972 by The Christian Hymnary Publishers
Notes: My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. Ps. 57:4.
Tune Information
Name: EIN TREUER ZEUGE
Arranger: John J. Overholt (1971)
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8.8.
Incipit: 13451 71215 67
Key: D♭ Major
Copyright: Arrangement Copyright © 1972 by The Christian Hymnary Publishers
Notes: M.M. 63


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Menno Simons (1496-1561) [was a] Dutch Anabaptist church leader.


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