NEUOFFENBARUNGTo sing to the Lord when Babel's machinations threaten the free spirit
1. Oh Lord! Look but once down into the darkest, most tragic hustle and bustle and screaming and cursing of the people, see how the servants of Baal make every effort to strike and burn mankind, the poor, the weak, with iron night.
2. Oh Father, Your eternal endless love and mercy, Your name, Your most holy name, is trampled underfoot most badly; the most vapid prayers are sold, and sacrifices are made to sickly dogs for the most disdainful pay!
3. Oh You Most Holy Father! Can you patiently watch such things still any longer? Elijah, the great prophet, once had to slaughter all the dark, sacrilegious servants and priests of Baal, and now you let them freely commit all the sacrilege that the great city of Babylon once badly committed.
4. Why, oh why must such things happen then? Have You then for deceit and for wickedness of man against man set mankind on this very dark earth? Should brothers deceive, condemn and curse brothers? Is this then the love of the neighbour, the brother to the brother, that such a servant of Baal shall condemn the brothers, who do not follow him, to the eternal death of hell?
5. No, no, you can never want that, You, eternal holy Father! For this You, eternal Love, did not bleed on the cross, and did not ask while dying, the omnipotence of the Godhead in You for mercy and forgiveness for those, that now such a brother wanting to be spiritual in your most holy name should condemn the brothers by the thousand in droves to the eternal death of hell.
6. And condemn only because one does not want to testify to his divine honor by believing without doubt what he commands to believe and act out of the darkest chamber of deceit for one's own worldly good.
7. Oh Father! Holy Father, put for once an end to the really long, long-running deception of brothers against brothers. Let the spirit actively blow through with love for once; let Your Holy Spirit be recognized by the dark brothers, so that they may also see that You have not called them to be deadly judges, but to be loving and gentle guides of the brethren to You, dear Father!
8. Oh do not let me call and cry to You in vain, dear Holy Father! Enlighten and warm the hearts of the brothers against brothers, destroy from the bottom those seats and chairs on which the brothers have condemned the brothers to the death of hell;
9. and now let Your eternal love and mercy become the eternal judge in every heart, of whatever people and brothers.
10. Oh let the diligent servants of Baal arise into equally diligent servants of love, and take away the grayish covering of the darkest self-deception from all the eyes of the servants of Baal, let them once see the holy, freest light of Your divine love and gentleness and grace and mercy, so that they may once stop cursing and instead bless all the people and brothers on earth.
11. Hear, oh most loving Father, for once my cries and screams, and free us from the long- lasting bonds of hell on earth! Your holy will always only be done. Amen