God Himself Is with Us
SDAH-003SDAH Hymn #3 — "God Himself Is with Us" is a hymn of quiet adoration written by Gerhard Tersteegen in 1729, translated into English by Frederick W. Foster (1789) and revised by John Miller (1789) and others. Tersteegen, a Reformed Pietist mystic from Mülheim, Germany, wrote the text as a contemplation on the presence of God in worship — "let us all adore Him, and with awe appear before Him." The tune ARNSBERG (also called WUNDERBARER KÖNIG, "wonderful King") was composed by Joachim Neander around 1680 and first published in his Glaub- und Liebesübung — the same composer who gave us SDAH #1's LOBE DEN HERREN.
Habakkuk 2:20; Genesis 28:16–17
Habakkuk 2:20 — "But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him." Tersteegen's mystical contemplation on the awe-inspiring presence of God in corporate worship.
Reverent and measured. The opening should feel hushed — "let us all adore Him" is meant to draw the congregation into stillness, not to project. Allow space at the end of each phrase. The shifting note values across the line (long–short–long) follow the German poetic meter; let the natural stresses guide your phrasing rather than counting metronomically.
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