O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder (‘How great thou art’). Carl Gustav Boberg* (1859-1940), in a Russian translation, translated by Stuart Keene Hine* (1899-1989). This hymn originated in a Swedish text by Carl Boberg beginning ‘O Store Gud’ (‘O great God’), written ca. 1885 and published on 16 April 1891 with a Swedish folk melody in Sanningsvittnet (‘witness for truth’), a journal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden. A German translation by Manfred von Glehn was made in Estonia in 1907 beginning ‘Wie gross bist Du’ (‘How great thou art’), and it was probably from this German text that a Russian translation was made by Ivan S. Prokhanoff* (1869-1935, called ‘the Martin Luther...