| Text: | Now Thank We All Our God |
| Author: | Martin Rinkart |
| Translator: | Catherine Winkworth |
| Tune: | NUN DANKET |
| Composer: | Johann Crüger |
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices |
| Title: | Now Thank We All Our God |
| Author: | Martin Rinkart (1636) |
| Translator: | Catherine Winkworth (1858, alt.) |
| Meter: | 67.67.66.66 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | Church: Baptism; Church: Special Days - Thanksgiving; God: Adoration and Praise (1 more...) |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | NUN DANKET |
| Composer: | Johann Crüger (1647) |
| Meter: | 67.67.66.66 |
| Key: | F Major or modal |
Lutheran Martin Rinkart wrote this text during the Thirty Years' War when his home town, the walled city of Eilenburg, Saxony, became at times a refuge, at times a place of famine and pestilence. During one year Rinkart buried over four thousand people