By Gentle Powers

Experience the deeply moving and spiritually uplifting song By Gentle Powers, featuring lyrics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and music composed by Siegfried Fietz. This four-part choral arrangement in F Major is perfect for choir performances, offering rich harmonies that enhance the depth and emotional impact of this beloved hymn.

Ideal for church services, memorials, and special occasions, this edition provides a beautifully harmonized setting that allows choirs to bring out the song’s message of hope, trust, and faith.

Key Features:
᛫ Four-part choral arrangement (SATB) in F Major
᛫ Ideal for church choirs, concerts, and special services
᛫ A timeless message of comfort and reassurance

Let the gentle powers of love and protection embrace you through this beautifully harmonized choral piece.

In addition, we have included text translations of the German/English version in Korean, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, Dutch, Swedish, Afrikaans, Persian, Ukrainian, Romanian, and Hebrew. While these translations are not intended for singing, we hope they will help even more people connect with the profound message of this cherished hymn.

Alternatively, there is also a sheet music in D Major.

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By Gentle Powers

Surrounded by such true and gentle powers,
so wonderously consoled and without fear,
thus will I spend with you this final hours
and then together enter a new year.

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're chastened us in many ways.

Warm and bright be our candles' flame today,
since into gloom you brought a gleaming light,
and lead again us, if you will, together!
We know it: you are beaming in the night.

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.