Now Thank We All Our God

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.

Martin Rinkart c. 1636
(translation by Catherine Winkworth)