1 Let all things now living
a song of thanksgiving
to God our Creator triumphantly raise;
who fashioned and made us,
protected and stayed us,
by guiding us on to the end of our days.
God's banners are o'er us,
pure light goes before us,
a pillar of fire shining forth in the night:
till shadows have vanished,
all fearfulness banished,
as forward we travel from light into Light.
2 By law God enforces.
The stars in their courses,
]the sun in its orbit obediently shine;
the hills and the mountains,
the rivers and fountains,
the depths of the ocean proclaim God divine.
We, too, should be voicing
our love and rejoicing
with glad adoration, a song let us raise:
till all things now living
united in thanksgiving,
to God in the highest, hosanna and praise.
