We Gather Together

We gather together 
             to ask the Lord's blessing; 
          He chastens and hastens 
          His will to make known.  

    The wicked oppressing 
                now cease from distressing.  
          Sing praises to His name, 
      He forgets not His own.
                       
                     Adrianus Valerius, 1597
                                    translated by Theodore Baker,  1894