#340: A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth

[lutheranhymns]

This is yet another for the subgenre of 1600s Germany being good for complex accompaniment parts and also good for dismal lyrics about death. The first verse gives us imagery like "slaughter, weak and faint." But then it pivots to the relationship between God the Creator and God the Redeemer (who sometimes seem to converse/disagree, as in the Garden of Gethsemane), and we get proper noun stuff like "What love, O Love." And then the narrator addresses Jesus directly: "You clothe me in your royal robes...Your love is dress enough for me." So either Jesus gives us new clothes, and/or Jesus' love is the only clothing we need. Okay...?