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Title:	By Gentle Powers English translation of Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen
Contributing Artist:	Jonathan Moses 慕晨
Album:	By Gentle Powers English translation of Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen - Single
Date:	03 October 2022
Duration:	4 Menit 4.00 detik
Type of file:	Audio MP3 (.mp3)
Audio Summary:	mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16p, 128 kb/s

Instrumental with lyrics:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letter written as a prayer toward the end of his 2-year imprisonment by the Nazis.
*Background of the lyrics:*
Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen (translated as “By gracious powers wonderfully sheltered” or “By gentle powers lovingly surrounded”) is a much-loved hymn that is widely sung in German speaking lands at the turn of the year. The protestant theologian, church leader, and resistance member Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote these inspiring and melancholic words as a prayer toward the end of his 2-year imprisonment by the Nazis. He sent it to his family as an encouragement and profession of faith in December of 1944, just eight weeks before he was executed (and four month before Nazi Germany’s capitulation). Bonhoeffer’s life, witness, and death give the song special resonance at the turn of the year. (Source: Cloisterseminars.org)
*English: Ulrich Schaffer (1990)*
Surrounded by such true and gentle powers
So wondrously consoled and without fear
Thus, will I spend with You these final hours
And then together enter a new year
* By gentle powers lovingly surrounded
With patience we’ll endure, let come what may
God is with us at night and in the morning
And certainly, on every future day
The worries of the old year still torment us
We’re troubled still by long and wicked days
Oh Lord, give our frightened souls the healing
For which You’ve chastened us in many ways
And though You offer us the cup so heavy
So painful is the most that we can stand
Not faltering, with thanks we will accepted
And take it as a gift from Your good hand*
And should it be You will once more to grant us
To see the world and to enjoy the sun
Then we will all the past events remember
And finally, our life with You is one*
*German: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1949)*
Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben,
behütet und getröstet wunderbar,
so will ich diese Tage mit euch leben
und mit euch gehen in ein neues Jahr.
Noch will das alte unsre Herzen quälen,
noch drückt uns böser Tage schwere Last.
Ach Herr, gib unsern aufgeschreckten Seelen
das Heil, für das du uns geschaffen hast.
Laß warm und hell die Kerzen heute flammen,
die du in unsre Dunkelheit gebracht,
führ, wenn es sein kann, wieder uns zusammen.
Wir wissen es, dein Licht scheint in der Nacht.
Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen,
erwarten wir getrost, was kommen mag.
Gott ist bei uns am Abend und am Morgen
und ganz gewiß an jedem neuen Tag.

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