EVENING AND MORNING
"There was evening, and there was morning--the first day." Genesis 1:5
Words: Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676); first published in the third set of
Ebeling's Pauli Gerhardi Geistliche Andachten in 1666 under the title
"Morning Blessing." The original German had 12 verses; the verse we are
familiar with are the original verse 4 (Evening and morning) and 9
(Father, oh, hear me).
Music: "Die Güldne Sonne," Johann Georg Ebeling (1637-1676).
Evening and morning, sunset and dawning,
Wealth, peace and gladness, comfort in sadness,
These are Thy works; all the glory be Thine!
Times without number, awake or in slumber,
Thine eye observes us, from danger preserves us,
Causing Thy mercy upon us to shine.
Father, O hear me, pardon and spare me;
Calm all my terrors, blot out my errors,
That by Thine eyes they may no more be scanned.
Order my goings, direct all my doings;
As it may please Thee retain or release me;
All I commit to Thy fatherly hand.