Translations
For more details on this topic, see Translations of Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser.During Haydn's lifetime, his friend the musicologist Charles Burney, made an English translation of the first verse which is less literal and more felicitius. Burney's penultimate couplet about sheep has no counterpart in the original German and appears to be Burney's own contribution.
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“Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling block comes!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:7.
Other translations use “temptations.”