LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,111)
  • Text Authors (19,486)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Oh, wie ist die Barmherzigkeit des Herrn
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Oh, wie ist die Barmherzigkeit des Herrn so groß
und lässet sich gnädig finden denen,
so sich zu ihm bekehren! 
Denn was kann doch ein Mensch sein,
sintemal er nicht unsterblich ist?
Was ist heller als die Sonne? 
Und dennoch wird sie verfinstert;
und was Fleisch und Blut dichtet,
das ist ja böses Ding. 
Das Heer der Himmelshöhe hält er in Ordnung;
aber alle Menschen sind Erde und Staub.

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Emil Nikolaus von Rezniček (1860 - 1945), "Oh, wie ist die Barmherzigkeit des Herrn", from Vier Bet- und Bussgesänge nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 69

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris