| Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916. | | | | Now Let Us All Thank God | | By Martin Rinckart (1586–1649) |
| | | NOW let us all thank God with heart and lips and hands, | |
| Who doth great things to us and men in all the lands, | |
| Who from the mother’s womb and tender childhood days | |
| Hath done us too much good, whose kindness ever stays. | |
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| From His eternal store may God, the while we live, | 5 |
| An ever thankful heart and peaceful spirit give, | |
| May He forevermore with His great mercy bless | |
| And keep us everywhere and save us from distress. | |
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| Praise, honour, glory be to God the Father, Son | |
| And Him who is like both in Heaven—the three times One, | 10 |
| As He was from the first and as He is to-day, | |
| And as He will remain forever and for aye. | | | | |
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