Now Thank We All Our God

Words: Mar tin Rink art, cir ca 1636; trans lat ed from German to English by Cather­ine Winkworth, 1856.
Music: Nun Danket, attributed to Jo hann Crü ger, 1647; harmony by Felix Men­dels sohn, 1840

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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.


O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts and blessèd 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!


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 Heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.