Selected Stanzas

J. C. Jacobi in Psalmodia Germanica, 1722.

(Note: In the wording accompanying the musical score the second line reads "And all what grieves thy Soul.")

J. Wesley, 1739, in the Schaff-Gilman Library of Religious Poetry.

The cento given in most American hymnals:

In the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754 (by Gambold, himself?).

(Note: the orthography of the Moravian Hymn Book has been retained.)

A. T. Russell, in his Psalms and Hymns, 1851.

H. Mills, 1856, in his Horae Germanicae.

Frances Elizabeth Cox, 1864, in the Schaff-Gilman Library of Religious Poetry.

J. Kelly, 1867, in his Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs.

J. Guthrie, 1869, in his Sacred Lyrics.

Mrs. Charles, 1858, in Bishop's Ryle's Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1883.