I cry out to you in distress

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Out of deep distress , version in four stanzas,
Erfurt Enchiridion 1524
Out of deep distress , five-verse version,
Wittenberg hymn book 1524 (reprint WA  35)

Out of deep need I cry to you is a hymn by Martin Luther . He wrote it around the turn of the year 1523/24 as a revision of the penitential psalm 130 ( Ps 130  LUT ). In the earliest prints it appears partly in a four, partly in a five-stanza version. The five-verse is, almost unchanged, the version of the Evangelical Hymnal (No. 299). The Catholic Praise to God (2013) contains stanzas 1, 3, 4 and 5 with slight linguistic smoothing (No. 277). The Mennonite hymn book contains five stanzas with also minor linguistic changes (No. 387). The most used melody of the song also comes from Luther.

Source problem

The two versions that appeared in print in 1524 differ in the number of stanzas (4 and 5) and in many textual details. Much has been discussed about the priority issue and the reasons for double tradition. Lucke demonstrably the vierstrophige version of the Eight Songs book on which the later vierstrophigen text prints based, is an unauthorized, drawn from secondary sources version and handwritten text interventions Luther neither one would be explained in the other direction.

content

At the beginning of Lutheran hymn creation , Aus deeper Not , according to a letter from Luther, is intended as an exemplary psalm song . The biblical penitential prayer with its appeal to the unmeritable forgiveness of God is paraphrased and deepened by him in the sense of his doctrine of justification . The top statements are "Our actions are in vain, even in the best of life" and "That is why I hope in God [...] and trust his goodness, which his dear word appeals to me ".

If the prayer of the Psalm extends his call to God into a call of trust to Israel , Luther relates this name of Jacob and the covenant people to "Israel of the right kind, which was created from the Spirit ", according to the old church tradition. H. to all who came to believe in redemption through Christ.

In its earliest form of worship, a funeral hymn was preferred because of deep need . In the later Lutheran tradition it found a permanent place in general confession and on the day of penance and prayer .

Melodies

Different melodies were assigned to the song in the early prints. Since the text follows the seven-line iambic bar form , one of the most widely used stanza schemes in Protestant hymns, the possible melodies are numerous. Has the "solemn" melody created by Luther himself for his psalm song in 1524 prevailed ? / i with its characteristic double fifth jump at the beginning - whereby the motto word "deep [he need]" falls on the low note in verse 1 - and the following "plaintive" small sixth . This melody is also the basis for Johann Sebastian Bach's later organ arrangements and his cantata BWV 38 . Audio file / audio sample

In Upper Germany (including Thuringia) was the melody ? / i by Wolfgang Dachstein from the Strasbourg hymn book of 1525, which Johann Sebastian Bach also uses in his early chorale arrangement BWV 1099 (from the Neumeister collection). It is printed on the ground floor as the second melody. Audio file / audio sample

Translations

A Danish translation Til dig råber jeg af hjertens grund ... is in the Danish hymn book, printed in Rostock 1529 (perhaps an extension by Arvid Pedersen), and is reprinted in the Danish hymn book by Ludwig Dietz, Copenhagen 1536. There is also under the songs Another translation for Mass is Aff diybsens nød rober ieg til teg… Hans Tausen also has it in his hymn book, En Ny Psalmebog , 1553. - In more recent times the song is called Af dybsens nød, o Gud, til dig with bange råb jeg vender ... in the Danish hymnal Den Danske Salme Bog , Copenhagen 1993, as No. 437 and in Den Danske Salmebog , Copenhagen 2002, as No. 496. This version was taken from the Danish hymn book, printed in Malmö 1528 [then in Danish], in a new translation by Peder Hjort, 1843.

literature

  • Hansjakob Becker (Ed.): Out of deep need, I scream to you . In: Geistliches Wunderhorn. Great German hymns. Munich 2001, pp. 124-134
  • Hans-Christian Drömann: 299 - Out of deep need I cry to you . In: Wolfgang Herbst , Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 15 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-50339-3 , p. 24–30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Wilhelm Lucke: I cry out to you out of deep distress . In: D. Martin Luther's works. Critical complete edition . Volume 35. Weimar 1923, pp. 97-109, Textarchiv - Internet Archive

Web links

Commons : Out of deep need I scream to you  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An attribution to Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder. Ä. found no scientific approval. Mention: Karl Schorbach:  Heinrich Vogtherr der Aeltere . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 192-194. Alfred Kleinberg: German poetry in its social, contemporary and intellectual-historical conditions . Berlin 1927, p. 98, books.google.de
  2. ↑ s. Lit; differing from Becker, p. 126, 128
  3. ↑ Verse 2, omitted in praise of God
  4. ↑ Verse 3
  5. ↑ Gap
  6. ↑ Cf. Otto Holzapfel : Lied index: The older German-language popular song tradition ( online version on the Volksmusikarchiv homepage of the Upper Bavaria district ; in PDF format; ongoing updates) with further information.