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Text: | Before Thee, God, Who Knowest All |
Author: | Magnus B. Landstad |
Translator: | Carl Döving |
Tune: | VATER UNSER |
1 Before thee, God, who knowest all,
with grief and shame I prostrate fall.
I see my sins against thee, Lord,
the sins of thought, of deed, and word.
They press me sore; I cry to thee:
O God, be merciful to me!
2 O Lord, my God, to thee I pray:
O cast me not in wrath away!
Let thy good Spirit ne'er depart,
but let him draw to thee my heart,
that truly penitent I be:
O God, be merciful to me!
3 O Jesus, let thy precious blood
be to my soul a cleansing flood.
Turn not, O Lord, thy guest away,
but grant that justified I may
go to my house at peace with thee:
O God, be merciful to me!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Before thee, God, who knowest all |
Title: | Before Thee, God, Who Knowest All |
Author: | Magnus B. Landstad (1861) |
Translator: | Carl Döving (1909) |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2018 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Christ: Blood of; Confession and repentance; God: Mercy of(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VATER UNSER |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8.8.8. |
Key: | c minor or modal |
Source: | Valentin Schumann, Geistliche Lieder, 1539 |