We Now Remember Michal

I Samuel l9:1-17; II Samuel 3:12-16; 6:20-23
Recommended Tune: Munich from Neuvermehrtes Meiningisches Gesangbuch (1693)
Adapted: Felix Mendelssohn (1847)
Meter: 76 76 D

We now remember Michal,
Saul's daughter, David's wife.
When David's life was threatened,
her keen wit saved his life.
Her father planned to kill him,
but he was led astray,
and Michal's cunning courage
helped David get away.

Concealing David's visage
with goat's hair for his head,
she let him down the window,
set free now from his bed.
Thus David learned from Michal
her father's devious plan,
and Saul said in his anger:
"I will hunt down this man!"

We grieve that Michal's father
still kept her as his pawn,
and pledged her to another.
The one she loved was gone!
When David reclaimed Michal,
her heart was broken, torn.
She who dared her life for him
died childless and forlorn.

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