Jesu, Meine Freude - Johann Crüger
Johann Crger
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Score parts: SOPRANO ALTO; TENOR BASS. Opening key signature: 3 flats (E♭ major). Opening time signature: 4/4. Estimated playback time: 37 sec. Listen while following the notation, adjust playback speed, or open this score in practice mode.
- Duration (approx.)
- 37 sec
- Score parts
- SOPRANO ALTO; TENOR BASS
- Opening key signature
- 3 flats (E♭ major)
- Opening time signature
- 4/4
- Genre
- classical
Text marked as lyrics
Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure, friend most sure and true: long my heart was burning, fainting much and yearning, thirsting, Lord, for you. Yours I am, O spotless Lamb, so will I let nothing hide you, seek no joy beside you! Let your arms enfold me: those who try to wound me cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking, Jesus calms my fear. Fires may flah and thunder crash; yea, though sin and hell asail me, Jesus will not fail me. Hence, all worldly treasure! Jesus is my pleasure, Jesus is my choice. Hence, all empty glory! What to me your story told with tempting voice? Pain or loss or shame or cross shall not from my Savior move me, since he chose to love me. Banish thoughts of sadness, for the Lord of gladness, Jesus, enters in; though the clouds may gather, those who love the Savior still have peace within. Though I bear much sorrow here, still in you lies purest pleasure, Jesus, priceless treasure!