By Gentle Powers / Von guten Mächten/ 선한 능력으로/ 所有美善力量/ piano cover with ENG/KR lyrics in description

Описание: By Gentle Powers/ Von guten Mächten/ 선한 능력으로/ 所有美善力量 / piano cover with ENG/KR lyrics in description

Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Composer : Siegfried Fietz


By Gentle Powers : 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

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

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

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*

God is with us at night and in the morning
And certainly, on every future day



선한능력으로

그 선한 힘에 고요히 감싸여
그 놀라운 평화를 누리며
나 그대들과 함께 걸어가네
나 그대들과 한 해를 여네

지나간 허물 어둠의 날들이
무겁게 내 영혼 짓 눌러도
오 주여 우릴 외면치 마시고
약속의 구원을 이루소서

*그 선한 힘이 우릴 감싸시니
믿음으로 일어날 일 기대하네
주 언제나 우리와 함께 계셔
하루 또 하루가 늘 새로워

주께서 밝히신 작은 촛불이
어둠을 헤치고 타오르네
그 빛에 우리 모두 하나 되어
온 누리에 비추게 하소서*

이 고요함이 깊이 번져갈 때
저 가슴 벅찬 노래 들리네
다시 하나가 되게 이끄소서
당신의 빛이 빛나는 이 밤*

주 언제나 우리와 함께 계셔
하루 또 하루가 늘 새로워



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.



Comforting Piano Hymns for Quiet Time
기도와 묵상을 위한 찬양

Video Credit: josephphackney, trilemedia

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