Jesus, all my gladness (Johann Crüger)
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(Posted 2024-07-06) CPDL #81235:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-07-06). Score information: A4, 1 page, 50 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2024-07-06). Score information: A4, 1 page, 109 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Jesus, all my gladness
Composer: Johann Crüger
Tune: Jesu, meine Freude
Lyricist: Johann Franck
- Translation by Arthur Wellesley Wotherspoon
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 665. 665. 786
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
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Original text and translations
- See Jesu meine Freude for other settings and translations.
English text
Jesus, all my gladness,
my repose in sadness,
Jesus, heaven to me;
ah, my heart long paineth,
ah, my spirit straineth,
longeth after thee!
Thine I am, O holy Lamb;
only where thou art is pleasure,
thee alone I treasure.
Hence with earthly treasure:
thou art all my pleasure,
Jesus, my desire!
Hence, for pomps I care not,
e’en as though they were not
rank and fortune’s hire.
Want and gloom, cross, death and tomb;
nought that I may suffer ever
shall from Jesus sever.
Flee, dark clouds that lower,
for my joy bestower,
Jesus, enters in!
Joy from tribulation,
hope from desolation,
they who love God win.
Be it blame or scorn or shame,
thou art with me in earth’s sadness,
Jesus, all my gladness.