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298: Ich, der ich oft in tiefes Leid.
Ich, der ich oft in tiefes Leid.--(Goed. 298.)
Based on Psalm CXLV. First published in Ebeling, 1666, 3, no. 27, in 18 stanzas of 7 lines; in Wackernagel: no. 95; Bachmann: no. 103; Berlin G. L. S.: 1863, no. 1004.
English Versions:
1. I who so oft in deep distress.
Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Ger., 2d Series, 1858, p. 149. The translation omits Gerhardt's stanzas II, III, IV. An alteration and adaptation of stanzas VI, VIII, IX, XI, beginning "O God! how many thankful songs," appeared as no. 168 in Holy Song, 1869.
2. Who is so full of tenderness.
A translation of stanza VIII as stanza 4 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1886, no. 537.
Miss Winkworth, in her Lyra Germanica, 1855.