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Wie ist so grosz und schwer die Last.--(Goed. 7.)
Appeared in Crü.--Runge, 1653, no. 299.
This fervent appeal for protection during the Thirty Years' War has been translated into English only by J. Kelly 1867, p. 246. In line 36 he renders (from the Wackernagel text which he used):
| "Behold! my heart, on every hand." |
As mein Herr is very evidently the proper reading from the sense of the context and the character of the other stanzas, it is unfortunate that his otherwise excellent rendering should be made to suffer by this one weak stanza.
"Protection of God in hitherto dangerous times of war."
| Stanza 1. | How heavy is the burden made That Thou upon our backs hast laid, O God! the Lord of Hosts, O God, whose anger rises high 'Gainst workers of iniquity. |
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