Timeless Truths ‎#310

310. Now Thank We All Our God

1 Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

2 Oh, 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 His grace, and guide us when perplexed;
And guard us through all ills in this world, till the next!

3 All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given,
The Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven;
The one eternal God, Whom earth and Heav’n adore;
For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.

Text Information

• 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 (1856)
• Meter: 13.13.12.12
• Scripture:
  2 Corinthians 2:14
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Now_Thank_We_All_Our_God); The Cyber Hymnal (http://hymntime.com/tch/htm/n/o/nowthank.htm); Catherine Winkworth believed Martin Rinkart wrote the tune in 1644.

Tune Information

• Name: NUN DANKET
• Composer (attributed to): Johann Crüger (1647)
• Harmonizer: Felix Mendelssohn (1840)
• Meter: 13.13.12.12
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Now_Thank_We_All_Our_God); The Cyber Hymnal (http://hymntime.com/tch/htm/n/o/nowthank.htm); Catherine Winkworth believed Martin Rinkart wrote the tune in 1644.