Hilf, Herr Jesu, lass gelingen

Author: Johann von Rist

Hilf, Herr Jesu, lass gelingen. J. Rist. [New Year.] First published in the Drittes Zehn of his Himlische Lieder, Lüneburg, 1642, No. 1, in 16 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled "Godly beginning of the New Year in, and with the most sweet name of Jesus." It is one of the best German New Year's Hymns, and became speedily popular (though often abridged). It is in the Unverfälscher Liedersegen, 1851, No. 70. Translated as:—
1. Help, Lord Jesus, let Thy blessing , by Miss Dunn in her Hymns from the German, 1857, p. 71. The translation is good but free, and represents stanzas i., iv., vii., viii., xiii.-xvi. of the original. Repeated, abridged, in Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864; the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, and others.
2. Help us, 0 Lord, behold we enter, a translation of stanzas i., iv., viii., xiii., xv., xvi., by Miss Winkworth, in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 172; repeated in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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