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Native name | "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren" |
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"Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" is a Christian hymn based on Joachim Neander's German-language hymn "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren", published in 1680.[2] John Julian in his A Dictionary of Hymnology calls the German original "a magnificent hymn of praise to God, perhaps the finest creation of its author, and of the first rank in its class."[3]
The melody used by Neander, first published in 1665, exists in many versions and is probably based on a folk tune.[4] It is catalogued as Zahn number 1912c with several variants.[5] The text paraphrases Psalm 103 and Psalm 150.[2] Catherine Winkworth published her English translation of Neander's hymn in 1863.[6]
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