Dig skall min själ sitt offer bära

Author: Arivd August Afzelius

Arvid August Afzelius (Swedish pronunciation: [ˌaɹːvid ˌɑu̯ɡɵst ˈafseːliɵs]; 8 October 1785 in Fjällåkra – 2 September 1871 in Enköping) was a Swedish pastor, poet, historian and mythologist. See also in: Wikipedia  Go to person page >

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First Line: Dig skall min själ sitt offer bära
Author: Arivd August Afzelius
Language: Swedish
Copyright: Public Domain

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DIR DIR JEHOVAH

DIR, DIR, JEHOVA was published anonymously in Georg Wittwe's Musikalisches Handbuch der Geistlichen Melodien (1690). The bar form (AAB) melody was expanded in Johann A. Freylinghausen's Geistreiches Gesangbuch (1704), where it was set to a hymn by Bärtholomaus Crasselius, "Dir, dir, Jehovah, vill i…

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