Time Out, Episode 76

Text: Jonah 2
Hymn: 766, Our Father, Who from Heaven Above
Kretzmann Commentary: Jonah
Bonus Bumper: Jonah and the Whale

I find it slightly humorous that Jonah considers himself saved in Chapter 2, while he is still in the belly of the fish, and not when his feet are again on terra firma. Jonah 2 then is a wonderful prayer of thanksgiving. Salvation belongs to the Lord.

766 is Martin Luther’s catechism hymn for the Lord’s Prayer. Nine verses sounds like a lot, but Cantor Beethe keeps it from dragging.  Check out the “text painting” — how he plays — on verse 7, emphasizing the mood of the text.

 
Text (sts. 2-5, 7): © 1980 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Our Father, Who from Heaven Above

1. Our Father, who from heav’n above
   Bids all of us to live in love
   As members of one family
   And pray to You in unity,
   Teach us no thoughtless words to say
   But from our inmost hearts to pray.
2. Your name be hallowed. Help us, Lord,
   In purity to keep Your Word,
   That to the glory of Your name
   We walk before You free from blame.
   Let no false teaching us pervert;
   All poor deluded souls convert.
3. Your kingdom come. Guard Your domain
   And Your eternal righteous reign.
   That to the glory of Your name
   We walk before You free from blame.
   Break Satan’s pow’r defeat his rage;
   Preserve Your Church from age to age.
4. Your gracious will on earth be done
   As it is done before Your throne,
   That patiently we may obey
   Throughout our lives all that You say.
   Curb flesh and blood and ev’ry ill
   That sets itself against Your will.
5. Give us this day our daily bread,
   And let us all be clothed and fed.
   Save us from hardship, war, and strife;
   In plague and famine, spare our life.
   That we in honest peace may live,
   To care and greed no entrance give.
6. Forgive our sins, Lord, we implore,
   That they may trouble us no more;
   We, too, will gladly those forgive
   Who hurt us by the way they live.
   Help us in our community
   To serve each other willingly.
7. Lead not into temptation, Lord,
   Where our grim foe and all his horde
   Would vex our souls on ev’ry hand.
   Help us resist, help us to stand
   Firm in the faith, a mighty host,
   Through comfort of the Holy Ghost.
8. From evil, Lord, deliver us;
   The times and days are perilous.
   Redeem us from eternal death,
   And, when we yield our dying breath,
   Console us, grant us calm release,
   And take our souls to You in peace.
9. Amen, that is so shall it be.
   Make strong our faith in You, that we
   May doubt not but with trust believe
   That what we ask we shall receive.
   Thus in Your name and at Your Word
   We say, “Amen, O hear us, Lord!”