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Text: | O God, Forsake Me Not |
Author: | Salomo Franck, 1659-1725 |
Translator: | August Crull, 1845-1923 |
Tune: | WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT |
Composer: | Ahasverus Fritsch, 1629-1701 |
1 O God, forsake me not!
Your gracious presence lend me;
Oh, lead your helpless child;
Your Holy Spirit send me
That I my course may run.
Be you my light, my lot,
My staff, my rock, my shield.
O God, forsake me not!
2 O God, forsake me not!
Take not your Spirit from me;
Do not allow the night
Of sin to overcome me.
Increase my feeble faith,
Which you yourself have wrought.
Be you my strength and pow'r.
O God, forsake me not!
3 O God, forsake me not!
Lord, hear my supplication!
In ev'ry evil hour
Help me resist temptation;
And when the prince of hell
My conscience seeks to blot,
Be then not far from me.
O God, forsake me not!
4 O God, forsake me not!
My heart your grace addressing,
O Father, God of love,
Grant me your heavenly blessing
To do when duty calls
Whatever you allot,
To do what pleases you.
O God, forsake me not!
5 O God, forsake me not!
Lord, I am yours forever.
The true faith grant to me;
Grant that I leave you never.
Grant me a blessed end
When my good fight is fought;
Help me in life and death.
O God, forsake me not!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O God, forsake me not! |
Title: | O God, Forsake Me Not |
Author: | Salomo Franck, 1659-1725 |
Translator: | August Crull, 1845-1923 (alt.) |
Meter: | 67 67 66 66 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1982 |
Topic: | Commitment |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT |
Composer: | Ahasverus Fritsch, 1629-1701 |
Meter: | 67 67 66 66 |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Arrangement: Copyright 1982 Concordia Publishing House. |