Prayer of Thanksgiving | The Tabernacle Choir

1. 1. We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;

   He chastens, and hastens his will to make known;

   The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.

   Sing praises to his name;

   He forgets not his own.

2. 2. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,

   Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;

   So from the beginning the fight we were winning;

   Thou, Lord, wast at our side;

   All glory be thine!

3. 3. We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,

   And pray that thou still our defender wilt be.

   Let thy congregation escape tribulation;

   Thy name be ever praised!

   O Lord, make us free!

Text: Anon., The Netherlands, ca. 1626; trans. by Theodore Baker, 1851–1934

Music: Anon., The Netherlands, ca. 1625; arr. by Edward Kremser, 1838–1914