O wie lieblich ist's und fein

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1 Ja, wie lieblich ist's und fein,
durch den Herrn geeint zu sein
und in Seiner Jünger Kreis
Ihm zu bringen Lob und Preis!

2 Wie des Hermons frischer Tau
mild erquickt die dürre Au,
so stärkt uns in Freud und Leid
Jesus durch Einmütigkeit.

3 Alle rühmen Seine Huld,
Seine Langmut und Geduld,
Seine Gnade, Seine Treu,
wie sie alle Morgen neu.

4 Halleluja sei dem Herrn
dargebracht von nah und fern!
Dank sei Ihm in dieser Zeit,
Lob und Ehr in Ewigkeit!

Source: Glaubenslieder #555

Author: Gustav Friedrich Ludwig Knak

Knak, Gustav Friedrich Ludwig, son of Christian F. L. Knak, Justiz Commissarius at Berlin, was born at Berlin, July 12, 1806. He matriculated as a student of theology at the University of Berlin, Easter, 1826. In the autumn of 1829 he became tutor in a private school at Königs-Wusterhausen, near Berlin, where he worked manfully for the sick and dying during the cholera year 1831. He returned to Berlin in August, 1832, and acted as one of the editors of the well-known Geistlicher Lieder Schatz (referred to in this Dictionary as the Berlin Geistlicher Lieder Schatz), to which he contributed a number of hymns, and for which he wrote the preface dated Dec. 11, 1832. In the autumn of 1834 he was ordained pastor of Wusterwitz, near Dramburg, in… Go to person page >

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First Line: O wie lieblich ist's und fein
Author: Gustav Friedrich Ludwig Knak
Language: German
Notes: Polish translation: See "O, jak pięknie w zgodzie żyć"
Copyright: Public Domain

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