6256 | The Cyber Hymnal#6257 | 6258 |
Text: | Soul, What Return Has God, Thy Savior |
Author: | Karl Friedrich Lochner |
Tune: | O DASS ICH TAUSEND |
Composer: | Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Soul, what return has God, thy Savior,
For all He gives thee day by day?
Oh, hast thou in thy gift a favor
That can delight and please Him?—Say!
The best of offerings He requires:
Thy heart it is that He desires.
2. Give unto God thy heart’s affection;
Who else can claim thee as His own?
Should Satan hold thee in subjection?
With him but pangs of hell are known.
To Thee alone, O Lord divine,
My heart and all I now resign.
3. Accept the gift which Thou requirest,
My heart and soul, O gracious God,
The first-fruits Thou so much desirest,
For which Thy Son paid with His blood.
To Thee I willingly assign
My heart, dear Lord, for it is Thine.
4. Whom should I give my heart’s affection
But Thee, who gavest Thine to faith?
Thy fervent love is my protection;
Lord, Thou hast loved me unto death.
My heart with Thine shall ever be
One heart throughout eternity.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Soul, what return has God, thy Savior |
Title: | Soul, What Return Has God, Thy Savior |
German Title: | Was gibt du denn, o meine Seele |
Author: | Karl Friedrich Lochner (1673) |
Meter: | 98.98.88 |
Language: | English |
Source: | composite translation from German to English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | O DASS ICH TAUSEND |
Composer: | Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel (1731) |
Meter: | 98.98.88 |
Incipit: | 13125 43212 22355 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Des Evangelischen Zions Musicalische Harmonie (Nürnberg, Germany: 1731) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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