Hymn Story: Praise to the Lord the Almighty

November 19, 2023 Leave a comment

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“Praise to the Lord! the Almighty, the King of Creation!” was written by Joachim Neander in 1680. He was the first important hymn-writer of the German Reformed Church. He primarily wrote after he went to Düsseldorf, where he’d taken a vow of silence to anything except official work. He died in 1680 at the age of thirty.

Catherine Winkworth translated the text into English in 1863.