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Hilf, Helfer, hilf in Angst und Not, Erbarm dich mein, o treuer Gott

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1 Hilf, Helfer, hilf in Angst und Not,
erbarm dich mein, du treuer Gott.
Ich bin ja doch dein liebes Kind
trotz Teufel, Welt und aller Sünd.

2 Ich trau auf dich, o Gott, mein Herr.
Wenn ich dich hab, was will ich mehr?
Ich hab ja dich, Herr Jesu Christ,
du mein Gott und Erlöser bist.

3 Des freu ich mich von Herzen fein,
bin gutes Muts und harre dein,
verlaß mich gänzlich auf dein Wort.
Hilf, Helfer, hilf, du treuer Hort!

Source: Evangelisches Gesangbuch (Bayern, Mitteldeutschland, Thüringen): Antwort finden in alten und neuen Liedern, in Worten zum Nachdenken und Beten #625

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Author: Martin Moller

Moller, Martin, son of Dionysius Moller, mason at Liessnitz (now Kroptädt), near Wittenberg, was born at Liessnitz, Nov. 11, 1547. He attended the town school at Wittenberg and the gymnasium at Görlitz, but was too poor to go to any university. In 1568 he was appointed cantor at Löwenberg in Silesia, but in April, 1572, was ordained as pastor of Kesselsdorf, near Löwenberg. In the autumn of 1572 he was appointed diaconus at Löwenberg, in 1575 pastor at Sprottau, and in July, 1600, became chief pastor at Görlitz. He preached his last sermon, Oct. 30, 1605, and died at Görlitz, March 2, 1606 (Koch, ii. 211, iv. 552, &c). Moller's hymns appeared in his two very popular devotional books, (I) Meditationes sanctorumpatrum, Görlitz, 1584;… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Hilf, Helfer, hilf in Angst und Not, Erbarm dich mein, o treuer Gott
Author: Martin Moller
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU

LES COMMANDEMENS (French for "the commandments"), a rich and graceful tune in the Hypo-Ionian mode (major), was used in the Genevan Psalter (1547) for the Decalogue and for Psalm 140, and later in British psalters and in the Lutheran tradition. The first setting in the Psalter Hymnal derives from Cl…

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch (Bayern, Mitteldeutschland, Thüringen) #625

Evangelisches Gesangbuch (Bayern, Mitteldeutschland, Thüringen) #625
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