With pleasure tender to this ride
With joy tender to this trip is a spiritual song by the German-Bohemian pastor and poet Georg Vetter . It can be found in the current Evangelical Hymn book under number 108 (under the Easter songs ).
Emergence
Vetter composed the text, which was first printed in the German song book Kirchengeseng in 1566 , on the melody of a Huguenot psalm (for Ps 138 LUT , the melody probably originated from Guillaume Franc (1543)).
To the text
The first letters of the original thirteen stanzas form the acrostic poem "Mediator Jesus" = "Jesus is the mediator".
text
With joy tenderly
on this journey
let us sing happily at the same time,
both, big and small,
sound
from the heart
with a clear tone.
Eternal salvation
is ours
because Jesus Christ has
risen,
which he has abundantly proclaimed.
He is the first
who has strongly and firmly
conquered all our enemies
and through death
as true God forced himself
to new life,
also
clearly promised his crowd
through his pure word
to
likewise achieve victory at the gate of heaven .
Sing praise and thanks
to
our Lord at all times with a free sound
and spread his honor
more and more
with word and deed:
So it will lead us
to eternal joy
out of love and favor
after our death,
free of all
adversity.
literature
- Michael Hunzinger: 108 - Delightfully tender . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 10 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-50333-4 , pp. 65–68 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).