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Hymns of My youth: We Praise Thee, O God

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This hymn seems to be unknown outside of Lutheran circles. If you’re a Lutheran today, and you’ve sung this hymn, chances are it’s been a neutered version with updated and decidedly unpoetic language, no violence (“battles” are now “struggles”), sans any “great Jehovah.” I give it to you con carne.

20 We Praise Thee, O God

We praise Thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator;
In grateful devotion our tribute we bring.
We lay it before Thee, we kneel and adore Thee;
We bless Thy holy name, glad praises we sing.

We worship Thee, God of our fathers, we bless Thee;
Through trouble and tempest our Guide hast Thou been.
When perils o’ertake us, escape Thou wilt make us,
And with Thy help, O Lord, our battles we win.

With voices united our praises we offer
to Thee, great Jehovah, glad anthems we raise.
Thy strong arm will guide us, our God is beside us,
To Thee, our great Redeemer, forever be praise!

The tune is Krember, which you may recognize as We Gather Together.

Organ

I thought I would have to do without a vocal performance, but then I discovered this gentleman:

I love the old falling-apart hymnal. I hope it means what I assume it means.

Now I’ll have to grow my beard out.

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