Now God Be With Us, For The Night Is Closing
- Words:
- Petrus Herbert
- Music:
- Friedrich F. Fleming
Sheet music
- 1Now God be with us, for the night is closing:The light and darkness are of His disposing,And ‘neath His shadow here to rest we yield us,For He will shield us.As Thy beloved, soothe the sick and weeping,And bid the captive lose his griefs in sleeping;Widows and orphans, we to Thee commend them,Do Thou befriend them.
- 2We have no refuge, none on earth to aid us,Save Thee O Father, Who Thine own hast made us;But Thy dear presence will not leave them lonelyWho seek Thee only.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1863, the words are in 198 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.