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Text: | Jesus, Priceless Treasure |
Author: | Johann Franck, 1618-1677 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 |
Tune: | JESU, MEINE FREUDE |
Adapter and Harmonizer: | Johann Cruger, 1598-1662 |
1. Jesus, priceless treasure,
Source of purest pleasure,
Truest friend to me;
Long my heart hath panted,
Till it well-nigh fainted,
Thirsting after thee.
Thine I am, O spotless Lamb,
I will suffer nought to hide thee,
Ask for nought beside thee.
2. In thine arm I rest me;
Foes who would molest me
Cannot reach me here.
Though the earth be shaking,
Every heart be quaking,
God dispels our fear;
Sin and hell in conflict fell
With their heaviest storms assail us:
Jesus will not fail us.
3. Hence, all thought of sadness!
For the Lord of gladness,
Jesus, enters in:
Those who love the Father,
Though the storms may gather,
Still have peace within;
Yea, whate'er we here must bear,
Still in thee lies purest pleasure,
Jesus, priceless treasure!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jesus, priceless treasure |
Title: | Jesus, Priceless Treasure |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 |
Author: | Johann Franck, 1618-1677 |
Meter: | 6 6 5 6 6 5 7 8 6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1966 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | JESU, MEINE FREUDE |
Adapter and Harmonizer: | Johann Cruger, 1598-1662 |
Meter: | 6 6 5 6 6 5 7 8 6 |
Incipit: | 55432 15675 17123 |
Key: | c minor |