NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD

A HYMN FOR THE 8th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

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 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!

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.

By Martin Rinkart, 1647