1. God who madest earth and heaven,
   Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
   Who the day and night hast given,
   Sun and moon and starry host,
   Whose almighty hand sustains
   Earth and all that it contains!

2. God, I thank Thee, in Thy keeping
   Safely I have slumbered here;
   Thou hast guarded me while sleeping
   From all danger, pain, and fear;
   And the cunning, evil Foe
   Hath not wrought my overthrow.

3. Let the night of my transgression
   With night’s darkness pass away.
   Jesus, into Thy possession
   I resign myself today;
   In Thy wounds I find relief
   From my sin, my sorest grief.

4. Help me as the morn is breaking
   In the spirit to arise,
   So from careless sloth awaking,
   That, when o’er the aged skies
   Shall the Judgment Day appear,
   I may see it without fear.

5. Lead me, and forsake me never,
   Guide my wand’rings by Thy Word;
   As Thou hast been, be Thou ever
   My Defense, my Refuge, Lord.
   Never safe except with Thee,
   Thou my faithful Guardian be.

6. O my God, I now commend me
   Wholly to Thy mighty hand.
   All the pow’rs that Thou dost lend me
   Let me use at Thy command.
   Lord, my Shield, my Strength divine,
   Keep me with Thee—I am Thine.

7. Lord, to me Thine angel sending,
   Keep me from the subtle Foe;
   From his craft and might defending,
   Never let Thy wand’rer go,
   Till my final rest shall come,
   And Thine angel bear me home.

Gott des Himmels und der Erden
Heinrich Albert, 1642
Tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1855, alt.
Source: Sts. 1–6, The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941, No. 549, alt.
St. 7, Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book, 1930, No. 23