"Herr, stärke mich, dein Leiden zu bedenken" (Lord, strengthen me to reflect on your suffering) is a Passion hymn in German, written by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert to the melody of "Herzliebster Jesu", and first published in 1757.

[1] It appeared first in Leipzig in 1757 in his collection Geistliche Oden und Lieder, with 22 stanzas[2] of four lines each,[3] titled "Passionslied" (Passion song).

[2] In the 1993 common Protestant hymnal, Evangelisches Gesangbuch, it appears shortened to ten stanzas and rearranged as EG 91.

Beginning with a funeral song by Bartholomäus Ringwaldt from the 17th century, the format became associated with the topics of death, Passion and solace.

Gellert succeeded mostly in filling the stressed fourth line with meaning,[1] Gellert chose to write his poem to match the melody of the well-known hymn "Herzliebster Jesu", composed by Johann Crüger in 1640, which was based on a 1534 tune by Guilleaume Franc.