Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.
Friday, April 7, 2023
"My Song Is Love Unknown"
I wrote about the Biblical sources for "My Song Is Love Unknown" years ago, but recently, I was thinking about the hymn and noticed a similarity between it and part of a Psalm. The hymn's first verse ends with the lines "Oh, who am I / That for my sake / My Lord should take / Frail flesh and die?" In essence, this asks the same question as Psalm 144:3: "O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?" The hymn considers this question in the context of the crucifixion.