#702: You, Dear Lord
Oct. 27th, 2019 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsHow's the Spanish translation?
Okay. Mostly (in both languages) it's just talking about "your light," "the light," "eternal light," so there isn't much of a rhyme scheme to try and keep consistent.
"[my heart is in] deep anguish" feels a little less concrete than the Spanish text, which I think is talking about "bleeding"?
What about "I" versus "we"?
That feels like something that could easily have been changed to make the translation flow more easily, but it's actually in both versions. Verse one goes from talking about "my heart" to "if you leave us," and verse two goes from "I follow your footsteps" to "guide us."
Meanwhile, on hymns in the wild, I attended a Lutheran church from a somewhat more conservative denomination today, and they had even more verses to "Just As I Am." None of the ones that were cut from ours felt particularly offensive, but it was just a lot in terms of the "second person thous and thees trying to be old-timey," so I can see why they tightened it up.
Okay. Mostly (in both languages) it's just talking about "your light," "the light," "eternal light," so there isn't much of a rhyme scheme to try and keep consistent.
"[my heart is in] deep anguish" feels a little less concrete than the Spanish text, which I think is talking about "bleeding"?
What about "I" versus "we"?
That feels like something that could easily have been changed to make the translation flow more easily, but it's actually in both versions. Verse one goes from talking about "my heart" to "if you leave us," and verse two goes from "I follow your footsteps" to "guide us."
Meanwhile, on hymns in the wild, I attended a Lutheran church from a somewhat more conservative denomination today, and they had even more verses to "Just As I Am." None of the ones that were cut from ours felt particularly offensive, but it was just a lot in terms of the "second person thous and thees trying to be old-timey," so I can see why they tightened it up.
