O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold by Martin Luther, 1523 Ps 12 ACH GOTT VOM HIMMEL—Enchiridion, Erfurt, 1524 O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold (or Ach Gott Vom Himmel, Sieh Darein) 1 O Lord, look down from heaven, behold And let Thy pity waken: How few are we within Thy Fold, Thy saints by men forsaken! True faith seems quenched on every hand, Men suffer not Thy Word to stand; Dark times have us o’ertaken. 2 With fraud which they themselves invent Thy truth they have confounded; Their