WERDE MUNTER

Stanza Arc

The narrative or theological arc traced by this tune's stanzas: Law and Gospel: The soul's radical unworthiness (stanzas 1-2) gives way to Christ's redemptive power (stanzas 3-4). The hymn moves from honest confession of sin to confident reception of grace.

Associated Hymn Texts (10)

• I do Not Come Because My Soul — Ernst Behm (1858)
• Jehovah, Let Me Now Adore You — Christian Behm (1664)
• Lord Jesus Christ True Man and God — Martin Luther (1524)
• All Depends on Our Possessing — Nikolai Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1734)
• By Adam's Fall is All Forlorn — Lazarus Spengler (1524)
• O Jesus, King Most Wonderful — Bernard of Clairvaux (1153)
• Oh How Blest Are You Whose Toils Are Ended — Heinrich Bone (1847)
• Prepare the Royal Highway — Frans Mikael Franzén (1824)
• We Are the Lord's His All-Sufficient Merit — Erdmann Neumeister (1714)
• We Who Once Were Dead — Jaroslav J. Vajda (1977)

Set to This Tune in The Lutheran Hymnal (3)

• TLH 207 Like the Golden Sun Ascending
• TLH 296 Speak, O Lord, Thy Servant Heareth
• TLH 491 Send, O Lord, Thy Holy Spirit

Notes on the Tune

From Hymn Desk's analyses of the hymns sung to it.

TLH 207, Like the Golden Sun Ascending : WERDE MUNTER (Johann Schop, 1642) — the tune of 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.'