Hymns from the German: Translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox
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Hymns from the German: Translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox
Hymns, German; Hymns, German -- Translations into English
I lay on Thee, my God and Saviour blest,
The weight which has my failing strength opprest,
Too ponderous to endure;
My worldly state with trusting faith I place
In Thine o’er-ruling Hand, throughout my race
My tried support and sure,
Which, from my youth, has never failed to guide
The changeful course of life’s eventful tide.
Allies and kindred now, and cherished friends,
To kind, protecting love my prayer commends
Of Thy paternal Heart;
To that safe refuge of Christ’s wounded Side
I trust my soul, its frailties there to hide,
When soul and body part,
And from this suffering frame at length set free,
I lay myself, O God, at rest on Thee.
Trost des Traurenden.
Unsere Trübsal, die zeitlich und leicht ist, schaffet eine ewige
und über alle Maasse wichtige Herrlichkeit.
Wem in Leidenstagen
Aller Trost steht fern,
Der vertrau sein Klagen
Seinem Gott und Herrn.
Er blickt in die Kammer,
Wo der Dulder weint,
Wenn in seinem Jammer
Er verlassen scheint.
Gott bleibt nicht verborgen
Was dich trübt und quält;
Er kennt deine Sorgen
Und weiss was dir fehlt.
Richte deine Blicke
Nach Ihm himmelwärts,
Wenn im Missgeschicke
Zagend ist dein Herz.
Auch dir wird Er lindern
Dein verborgnes Leid,
Der stets seinen Kindern
Helfen ist bereit.
Alle deine Leiden
Sind des Trosts nicht werth,
Nicht der süssen Freuden,
Die dein Herz erfährt,
Wenn Er mit Erbarmen
An sein Herz dich drückt,
Und in seinen Armen
Für dein Leid erquickt.
Heinrich Siegmund Oswald. 1793.
The Mourner’s Consolation.
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a
far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
2 _Cor._ iv. 17.
Oh! let him whose sorrow
No relief can find,
Trust in God, and borrow
Ease for heart and mind.
Where the mourner weeping
Sheds the secret tear,
God His watch is keeping,
Though none else be near.
God will never leave thee,
All thy wants He knows,
Feels the pains that grieve thee,
Sees thy cares and woes.
Raise thine eyes to heaven
When thy spirits quail,
When, by tempests driven,
Heart and courage fail.
When in grief you languish,
He will dry the tear,
Who His children’s anguish
Soothes with succour near.
All thy woe and sadness
In this world below,
Balance not the gladness
Thou in heaven shalt know,
When thy gracious Saviour,
In the realms above,
Crowns thee with His favour,
Fills thee with His love.
Der Leidensweg.
Welchen der Herr lieb hat, den züchtiget Er; Er stäupet aber einen
jeglichen Sohn den Er aufnimmt.
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