Now Thank We All Our God

Words by Martin Rinkart, translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1858.

Verse 1. Now thank we all our God
With heart 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 to-day.

Verse 2. Oh, may this bounteous God
Through all this 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 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 heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now,
And shall be evermore!

Text copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). The words were published in 1858, which places them in the public domain in the United States, so your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.

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