Was willst du dich betrüben

What wilt thou grieve is a Lutheran hymn by Johann Heermann. He published it in 1630 in the band Devoti musica cordis. The issue is trust in God in the face of the enemy.

History

Heermann, the poet of the song was influenced by the treatise book on German Poeterey of Martin Opitz, who appeared in 1624.

Heermann lived in Köben, Silesia, when he wrote the song. The city suffered from the Thirty Years' War, it was four times plundered. Heermann lost several times his belongings and had to flee under life-threatening.

After that he published in 1630 in Breslau a volume of hymns, Devoti musica cordis, Hauss and heart - Musica, the What do you want included you grieve. The band included, among other things, O Jesus Christ, the true light, heart Dearest Jesus, what have you done wrong, O God, thou good God and Lord, our God, let not be confounded. A fourth edition in 1644 containing Jesus, your deep wounds.

Design and Text

What wilt thou grieve treated trust in God in the face of the enemy, to Satan. The seven stanzas have eight row in bar form ( lug studs swan song ). Each lug has two lines, the swan song has four, which are rhymed external and internal.

The song begins with an address to his own soul as in some of the Psalms, for example, Psalm 103 This view of the individual is different from Martin Luther's approach to the song A Mighty Fortress is our God, which deals with a similar theme. The beginning is a paraphrase of Psalm 42:5, Luther had translated: " Why are you downcast, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God. "

The central fourth stanza begins with strong words about Satan as an enemy: "If even right out of the dens / Satan wanted to / dir even oppose / and rave against thee ."

The last verse contains, as highlighted fifth line, " O Father, Son and Spirit."

Melody

The text is sung to the melody from God I will not leave. This melody emerged from a secular song that is similar to the melody Monica, which was widespread in Europe from the 16th century. Similarly, the melody at Ernst, O children of men. The fifth line, the beginning of Abgesang is highlighted: it starts an octave higher than the previous tone, and ends with a break, after which the other three lines of the Abgesang are sung throughout. Heermann seems the text for the melody to have written, as well as the high point of the text is in several verses 5th in row

Setting

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the chorale cantata in 1724 What do you want to sadden you, BWV 107 on the unchanged words of the hymn and put the melody in sentence 1 in 4/4-time, in the last sentence in 12/8-Takt.