1 Herre, jeg har handlet ilde!
Syndens Magt blev mig for stor,
Veien jeg ei vander vilde,
Den du viser i dit Ord;
Og–hvor findes nu den Hule,
Hvor min Skam jeg kunde skjule?
2 Jeg kan mig for dig ei vare,
Du i Veien altid staar,
Vil jeg høit til Himmels fare,
Eller ned i Afgrund gaar,
Fløi jeg end til Verdens Ender,
Du er, hvor jeg mig henvender.
3 Jeg har syndet mod dig, Herre,
Syndet har jeg al min Dag,
Jeg gik frem fra Ondt til Værre,
Glemte dort min Sjæle-Sag;
Derfor nu jeg for din Vrede
Skjælve maa af Angst og græde.
4 O min Gud! om nogen kunde
Se og tælle Havets Sand,
Dog formaar han ingenlunde
Al min Synd og Uforstand
Og min Ondskab med sin Tale
Ret til Fulde af afmale.
5 Græder, mine Øine, græder,
Hjerte, dine Kilder bryd,
Flømmer over hine Steder,
Som har seet min Udyd!
Al min Graad, jeg Støv og Aske,
Kan dog ei min Synd afvaske.
6 Men, o Jesus, dine Vunder,
Ja, en Draabe af dit Blod
Gjøre kan det Naadens Under,
At min Skade vorder god;
Derfor hen til dig jeg haster,
Mig for dine Fødder kaster.
7 Al den Skyld, du hos mig finder,
Sænk den ned i Miskunds Sø,
To mig ren af mine Synder,
Gjør dem som den hvide Sne!
Lad din gode Aand mig drive,
At jeg fast ved dig maa blive!
Source: Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika #388
Johann Franck (b. Guben, Brandenburg, Germany, 1618; d. Guben, 1677) was a law student at the University of Köningsberg and practiced law during the Thirty Years' War. He held several positions in civil service, including councillor and mayor of Guben. A significant poet, second only to Paul Gerhardt in his day, Franck wrote some 110 hymns, many of which were published by his friend Johann Crüger in various editions of the Praxis Pietatis melica. All were included in the first part of Franck’s Teutsche Gedichte bestehend im geistliche Sion (1672).
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Magnus Brostrup Landstad (born 7 October 1802 in Måsøy, Norway and died 8 October 1880 in Kristiania) was a Norwegian minister, psalmist and poet who published the first collection of authentic Norwegian traditional ballads in 1853. This work was criticized for unscientific methods, but today it is commonly accepted that he contributed significantly to the preservation of the traditional ballads.
Landstad lived with his father Hans Landstad (1771–1838) who was also a minister, first in 1806 to Øksnes, to Vinje in 1811 and to Seljord in 1819. He took a theological degree (cand. theol) in 1827, and worked after that as the resident chaplain in Gausdal for six years. After that he worked in different parishes in Telemark, Østfold befo… Go to person page >
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