The commentaries confirm this hymn’s standing as The Lutheran Hymnal’s number 93 but do not establish whether or under what title it carries forward into Lutheran Service Book; Scott may wish to confirm its current numbering before this insert goes to print. Its German original, Ich freue mich in dir, was written by Caspar Ziegler in 1648 at the close of the Thirty Years’ War and set to Johann Crüger’s tune “Nun danket alle Gott” from that same year. Grounded in Isaiah 9:6, its four stanzas move from welcoming the newborn Savior, who conceals His majesty to become our “Brother dear,” through the mystery of His descent to dwell among a fallen race, to the saving power of His Name, “sweet and gentle name... it pierces hearts of stone,” and finally to a prayer of total trust, “to Thee alone we cling.” German hymnals of the mid-seventeenth century classified it simply as a New Year’s hymn, and its pairing of Christmas joy with new-year confidence makes it a fitting hymn before Communion on the night the octave of the Nativity gives way to the Feast of the Circumcision and Name of Jesus.