Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten

Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten. Georg Neumark* (1621-1681). Written by Neumark in 1641 or 1642, following a period of poverty and depression, as a hymn of thanksgiving for his appointment as tutor to the children of a judge at Kiel. It was published in Neumark’s Fortegpflanzter Musikalisch-poetischer Lustwald (‘A musical and poetic pleasant spreading wood’, Jena, 1657), with the title ‘A Hymn of Consolation. That God will care for and preserve his own in his own time’. It had a quotation from Psalm 55: 22: ‘Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee’. It had seven 6-line stanzas. All are found in EG in the ‘Angst und Vertrauen’ section (EG 369; three stanzas are in...