Hilf, Gott, wie geht das immer zu (Jacob Meiland)

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• (Posted 2022-01-29)  CPDL #67801:         

Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2022-01-29).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 110 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Hilf, Gott, wie geht das immer zu
Composer: Jacob Meiland
Lyricist: Andreas Knöpken
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1575 in Sacrae aliquot cantiones, no. 24
Description: The text is the first stanza of a versification of psalm 2 by the German reformator Andreas Knöpken.

External websites:

• The entire text in several Low German and High German versions
• A versified (hence free) English translation of that

Original text and translations

German text Hilf, Gott, wie geht das immer zu, dass alles Volk so grimmet, Fürsten und König allgemein, mit eins sind sie gesinnet wider zu streben deiner Hand und Christo, den du hast gesandt, der ganzen Welt zu helfen.

English translation Help us, God, how can it be, that all people do rage, princes and kings all together, unitedly they intend to defy your hand and Christ, which you have sent to help all the world. Translation by Gerhard Weydt