275 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Transcript of 275 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
JESUS CHRIST: ASCENSION AND REIGN
275 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
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Long before Isaac Watts began to Christianize the Psalms, Martin Luther had already done so when hecreated the text and tune for this, his most famous hymn, which is based on Psalm 46. Luther encouragedmetrical versions of psalms as well as chanted psalms and new hymns.
TEXT: Martin Luther, 1529; trans. Frederick Henry Hedge, 1852MUSIC: Martin Luther, 1529, alt.
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I know my Sav - ior lives.This loose paraphrase effectively conveys the joyful tone of Psalm 98, largely by incorporating allusions tomany other Scriptures, such as salm 149:3, Romans 13:11, Psalm 16.9, 1 Corinthians 15:52, and Job 19-25.These familiar echoes help to give the text depth and breadth.
TEXT and MUSIC: Daniel L. Schutte, 1972, alt. SING A NEV SONGIrregulat chla¿hlshedby(CP)