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17033. That We Our Will to Him Might Yield

1. That we our will to Him might yield,
These Ten Com­mand­ments God re­vealed
When He to Is­ra­el drew nigh
Thro’ Mos­es on Mount Si­nai.

2. I am the Lord thy God alone,
Thou shalt no gods be­side Me own,
But on­ly love and trust in Me,
That I in truth thy Lord may be.

3. Take not My ho­ly name in vain,
Nor yet My hon­or e’er pro­fane;
Do thou ex­alt in word and thought
What I My­self have said and wrought.

4. Do thou the Sab­bath day keep blest,
With all thy house en­joy­ing rest;
From earth­ly cares thy soul keep free,
That I may have My work in thee.

5. Thy par­ents hon­or, serve and love
As trea­sures sent thee from ab­ove;
Stand by them when their strength shall wane,
That length of days may be thy gain.

6. Do thou ab­stain from hate and strife,
Lest thou shouldst take thy neigh­bor’s life;
Be meek and pa­tient, love thy foe
And naught but good on him bestow.

7. Be ev­er faithful to thy spouse
And do not break thy mar­riage vows;
Subject thy life to dis­ci­pline,
Thus keep­ing chaste and pure with­in.

8. Thy neigh­bor’s goods thou shalt not steal,
Nor be thou deaf to his ap­peal,
But op­en thou both heart and hand
To help the needy in the land.

9. Let not thy lips false wit­ness bear,
Nor any­one’s good name im­pair;
Defend thy neigh­bor’s hon­or well,
And help all ill re­ports to quell.

10. Nor co­vet thou thy neigh­bor’s wife,
His house, nor aught he owns in life;
But wish that his in truth may be
The good thy heart would wish for thee.

11. These pre­cepts, as we look with­in,
Reveal to us our griev­ous sin,
And here the Lord doth tru­ly show
How man should live while here be­low.

12. May Je­sus Christ, our gra­cious Lord,
To us poor sin­ners help af­ford;
He is our me­di­at­or true,
Without whose help we naught can do.

Text Information
First Line: That we our will to Him might yield
Title: That We Our Will to Him Might Yield
Author: Martin Luther
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: (Dies sind die heil­gen zehn Ge­bot), in Eyn En­chi­ri­di­on od­er Hand­büch­lein (Er­furt, Ger­ma­ny: Jo­han­nes Loers­feld, print­er, 1524), num­ber 1. ; Trans­lat­ed from Ger­man to Eng­lish by Con­rad H. L. Schuet­te in the Am­eri­can Lu­ther­an Hym­nal, ed­it­ed by Em­ma­nu­el Pop­pen (Co­lum­bus, Ohio: Lu­ther­an Book Con­cern, 1930), num­ber 59.
Tune Information
Name: O HEILIGE DREIFALTIGKEIT
Composer: Nikolaus Hermann
Meter: LM
Key: D Major
Source: Die Sontags euangelica über das gantze Jar (Wittenberg, Germany: 1560)



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