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Hymnal Number
664Resource Type:
Keys included:
F
About this Hymn
This hymn is an amazing testimony of thankfulness during the most trying of times. It was written during the Thirty Years' War, in 1630; seven years later, a great plague struck the hymn writer's city, and he personally officiated the funerals of about 4,500 people—including his wife. Erik Routley called this hymn an "unpretentious celebration of that brightest of Christian graces: gratitude."
Lyrics
Verse 1
Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices, who wondrous things hath done, in whom his world rejoices; who from our mother's arms hath blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
Verse 2
Oh, may this bounteous God through all our lives 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 free us from all ills in this world and the next.
Verse 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.
Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices, who wondrous things hath done, in whom his world rejoices; who from our mother's arms hath blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
Verse 2
Oh, may this bounteous God through all our lives 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 free us from all ills in this world and the next.
Verse 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.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Martin Rinkart, 1630; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1858
Music: Johann Crüger, 1647; harm. Felix Mendelssohn, 1840, alt.
Music: Johann Crüger, 1647; harm. Felix Mendelssohn, 1840, alt.