O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown
Author: Arnulf of Leuven; Paul Gerhardt
Composer: Varies by tune (see below)
Languages (22)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: O Shpëtimtar, Ti që Mban Kuror’
- Czech: Dnes trny, Spasiteli, jsi byl korunován
- Dutch: O hoofd bedekt met wonden
- English: O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown
- English Braille: ⠠⠕ ⠠⠎⠁⠧⠊⠕⠗⠂ ⠠⠹⠳ ⠠⠱⠕ ⠠⠺⠑⠁⠗⠑⠎⠞ ⠁ ⠠⠉⠗⠪⠝
- Finnish: Oi rakkain Jeesukseni
- French: Seigneur, ô toi qui portes la couronne
- French (French Polynesia): E te Fatu, Ua Faaheihia Oe
- French (Haiti): Chef couvert de blessures
- German: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
- Greek: Σωτήρα, σου φορέσαν στεφάνι
- Hungarian: Ó, Megváltónk, fejeden töviskorona van
- Icelandic: Ó, höfuð dreyra drifið
- Khmer (Cambodian): ឱ ! ព្រះអង្គសង្រ្គោះដែលពាក់មកុដ
- Lithuanian: O Jėzau, karūnuotas erškėčių vainiku
- Norwegian: Velt alle dine veier
- Polish: O Zbawco, na Twej głowie korona
- Romanian: O, Salvator, Tu ai purtat o coroană
- Russian: Господь, в венце терновом
- Swahili: Mwokozi Uvaaye Taji la Miiba
- Swedish: O huvud, blodigt, sårat
- Tahitian: E te Fatu, Ua Faaheihia Oe
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in German, in 1656 or earlier.
Public domain with caveats (IRI)*
*English translation “O Savior, thou who wearest…” by Karen Lynn Davidson, © 1985 IRI.
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: The Saints’ Harp (RLDS) (1870), 419.
Representative lyrics
German (Original Language)
1. O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, voll Schmerz und voller Hohn, o Haupt, zum Spott gebunden mit einer Dornenkron. O Haupt, sonst schön gekrönet mit höchster Ehr und Zier, jetzt aber hoch verhöhnet: Gegrüßet seist du mir.
2. Nun, was du, Herr, erduldet, ist alles meine Last; ich hab es selbst verschuldet, was du getragen hast. Schau her, hier steh ich Armer, der Zorn verdienet hat, schenk mir, o mein Erbarmer, dein Herz und deine Gnad.
3. Ich danke dir von Herzen, o Jesu, liebster Freund, für deines Todes Schmerzen, da du’s so gut gemeint. Ach gib, daß ich mich halte zu dir und deiner Treu und, wenn ich einst erkalte, in dir mein Ende sei.
4. Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden, so scheide nicht von mir, wenn ich den Tod soll leiden, so tritt du dann herfür. Wenn mir am aller bängsten wird um das Herze sein, so reiß mich aus den Ängsten kraft deiner Angst und Pein.
English
O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown
Hymns (1985, 2002), no. 197
Translator: Karen Lynn Davidson
Adapter: Johann Sebastian Bach
1. O Savior, thou who wearest A crown of piercing thorn, The pain thou meekly bearest, Weigh’d down by grief and scorn. The soldiers mock and flail thee; For drink they give thee gall; Upon the cross they nail thee To die, O King of all.
2. No creature is so lowly, No sinner so depraved, But feels thy presence holy And thru thy love is saved. Tho craven friends betray thee, They feel thy love’s embrace; The very foes who slay thee Have access to thy grace.
3. Thy sacrifice transcended The mortal law’s demand; Thy mercy is extended To ev’ry time and land. No more can Satan harm us, Tho long the fight may be, Nor fear of death alarm us; We live, O Lord, thru thee.
4. What praises can we offer To thank thee, Lord most high? In our place thou didst suffer; In our place thou didst die, By heaven’s plan appointed, To ransom us, our King. O Jesus, the anointed, To thee our love we bring!