Thanksgiving
Now Thank We All Our God
- Words:
- Martin Rinkart, c.1636. Translated Catherine Winkworth, 1856. Music: 'Nun Danket' Johann Crüger, 1647.
- Setting:
- "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book", 1931.
- Metre:
- 6 7 6 7 6 6 6 6
- 1Now 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' armshas blessed us on our wayWith countless gifts of love,and still is ours today.
- 2O may this bounteous Godthrough all our life be near us,With ever joyful heartsand 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!
- 3All praise and thanks to Godthe Father now be given;The Son and Him Who reignswith 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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- The words are in 764 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Nun Danket, is in 667 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is 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.