{"id":18091,"date":"2023-04-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18091"},"modified":"2023-04-15T21:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T01:29:50","slug":"sunday-singing-stricken-smitten-and-afflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18091","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stricken Smitten and Afflicted (O MEIN JESU, ICH MUSS STERBEN)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T8bshWdiCDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuing an Easter theme, here&#8217;s a marvelous hymn that fits our Good Friday meditations. &#8220;Stricken, smitten, and afflicted&#8221; comes from the Irishman Thomas Kelly (1769-1855), who wrote 765 hymns over 51 years. The tune, I believe, is of German folk origin with harmony arranged by American Paul G. Bunjes for\u00a0<em>Lutheran Worship<\/em>\u00a0(1982). The text below is taken from the 2006 Lutheran Service Book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,<br>see\u00a0him dying on the tree!<br>&#8216;Tis the Christ,\u00a0by man rejected;<br>yes, my soul, &#8217;tis\u00a0he, &#8217;tis\u00a0he!<br>&#8216;Tis the long-expected Prophet,<br>David&#8217;s Son, yet David&#8217;s Lord;<br>Proofs I see sufficient of it:<br>&#8217;tis the true and faithful Word.<br><br>2 Tell me, ye who hear\u00a0him groaning,<br>was there ever grief like\u00a0his?<br>Friends through\u00a0fear\u00a0his cause disowning,<br>foes insulting\u00a0his distress;<br>many hands were raised to wound\u00a0him,<br>none would interpose to save;<br>but the deepest stroke that pierced\u00a0him<br>was the stroke that Justice gave.<br><br>3 Ye who think of sin but lightly<br>nor suppose the evil great<br>here may view its nature rightly,<br>here its guilt may estimate.<br>Mark the sacrifice appointed,<br>see who bears the awful load;<br>&#8217;tis the Word, the Lord&#8217;s\u00a0Anointed,<br>Son of Man and Son of God.<br><br>4 Here we have a firm foundation,<br>here the refuge of the lost;<br>Christ,\u00a0the Rock of our salvation,<br>his the name of which we boast:<br>Lamb of God, for sinners wounded,<br>sacrifice to cancel guilt!<br>None shall ever be confounded<br>who on\u00a0him their hope have built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing an Easter theme, here&#8217;s a marvelous hymn that fits our Good Friday meditations. &#8220;Stricken, smitten, and afflicted&#8221; comes from the Irishman Thomas Kelly (1769-1855), who wrote 765 hymns over 51 years. The tune, I believe, is of German folk origin with harmony arranged by American Paul G. Bunjes for\u00a0Lutheran Worship\u00a0(1982). The text below is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18091\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,3966,4662],"class_list":["post-18091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-sunday-singing","tag-thomas-kelly"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18092,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions\/18092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}