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Christ, the Life of all the living 
Christ, the Life of all the living, Christ, the Death of death our foe, who, thyself for us once giving to the darkened depths of woe, patiently didst yield thy breath, man to save from sin and death: thousand, thousand thanks shall be, blessèd Jesus, unto thee. 
Thou, ah, thou hast taken on thee bitter strokes, a cruel rod; pain and scorn were heaped upon thee, O thou sinless Son of God; only thus for us to win rescue from the bonds of sin: thousand, thousand thanks shall be, blessèd Jesus, unto thee. 
Thou didst bear the smiting, only that it might not fall on me; stoodest falsely charged und lonely, that I might be safe and free; comfortless, that I might know comfort from thy boundless woe: thousand, thousand thanks shall be, blessèd Jesus, unto thee. 
Then for all that wrought our pardon, for thy sorrows deep and sore, for thine anguish in the garden, I will thank thee evermore; thank thee with the latest breath for thy sad and cruel death; for that last most bitter cry, praise thee evermore on high. 
Ernst Christoph Homburg (1605-1681); trans. (1827-1878)