11 Hymns for a City Devastated by Water

Now Thank We All Our God

O may this bounteous God

through all our life be near us,
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us,
to keep us in his grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
of this world in the next.

– Martin Rinkart, 1636; trans. Catherine Winkworth
Tune: NUN DANKET