Back when I transcribed LSB #666 "O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe" (and noticed a few things,
about which I wrote last week), I also transcribed its counterpart in
Lutheran Worship: "Do Not Despair, O Little Flock" (#300). The translations are quite different, and/so there's a small feature in "Do Not Despair, O Little Flock" that isn't in "O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe." Rather than write one confusing post about both hymns, I decided to write about them separately.
The fourth verse of "Do Not Despair, O Little Flock" begins: "Then help us, Lord! Now hear our prayer. / Defend your people ev'rywhere." That second line is sung to this phrase from the tune "Kommt her zu mir":
The three syllables of "ev'rywhere" are each sung to a different pitch (B A G#), musically giving a sense of breadth.
