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Text: | Now Thank We All Our God |
Author: | Martin Rinkart |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth |
Tune: | NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT |
Composer: | Johann Crüger |
Harmonizer: | Felix Mendelssohn |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things hath done,
in whom this world rejoices;
who, from our mothers' arms,
hath blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
2 O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us;
and keep us in God's grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
in this world and the next.
3 All praise and thanks to God,
who reigns in highest heaven,
to Father and to Son
and Spirit now be given:
the one eternal God,
whom heaven and earth adore,
the God who was, and is,
and shall be evermore.
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First Line: | Now thank we all our God |
Title: | Now Thank We All Our God |
Author: | Martin Rinkart (1636 c.) |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth (1858, alt.) |
Meter: | 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Aging; Grace; Thanksgiving(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT |
Composer: | Johann Crüger (1647) |
Harmonizer: | Felix Mendelssohn (1840) |
Meter: | 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 |
Key: | F Major |
Although this hymn is often used on large and festive occasions, its first two stanzas had much humbler beginnings: they originated as a family table prayer during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648). These words have been associated with this tune since the mid-17th century.
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Audio recording: | ![]() |