#881: Let All Things Now Living
Jun. 13th, 2021 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThis is another one of those "I don't know if it's really a classic but it's classic to me." This was one that I liked as a kid--maybe because of the rhymes? vanished/banished are good, and then "living/thanksgiving" gets echoed back in verse 2, but at the end of the verse rather than the beginning--it feels more like "tying together" than "repetitive."
I also like the imagery of God ultimately being in charge of all the cosmos. The original version is "His law he enforces: the stars in their courses and sun in its orbit obediently shine." This got changed for this edition. Presumably for gender-neutrality reasons, it got changed to "God rules all the forces..." But the idea of the sun being in an orbit gets to stay, despite the scientific inaccuracy! They weren't worried it would be perceived as too literal??
I also like the imagery of God ultimately being in charge of all the cosmos. The original version is "His law he enforces: the stars in their courses and sun in its orbit obediently shine." This got changed for this edition. Presumably for gender-neutrality reasons, it got changed to "God rules all the forces..." But the idea of the sun being in an orbit gets to stay, despite the scientific inaccuracy! They weren't worried it would be perceived as too literal??
