Gud ware oss barmhertig och mild
A Prayer for Divine Grace and Global Praise
The hymn opens with a petition for God's mercy and the illumination of His face so that His salvation may be known among all nations.
May God be merciful and gracious to us and grant us his grace; may the light of his face shine upon us with the fire of love, so that we may know his ways and learn his blessed will, and so that among every nation Christ, our salvation and honor, may receive all praise and glory.
The Joy of Righteous Judgment
The focus shifts to the universal call for praise in response to God's righteous judgment and the promise of forgiveness.
May every tongue thank and praise you, O Lord God, and may the whole world rejoice and sing with delight and joy, because you have come to us to render righteous judgment; and whoever falls before you here will surely receive what is best: the forgiveness of all their sins.
A Trinitarian Blessing and Thanksgiving
The hymn concludes with a call for all people to honor God for the earth's fruitfulness, sealed by a Trinitarian blessing.
Yes, may every virtuous and devout people thank God and praise you, for the earth now richly bears its fruit in crops and flowers. May the Father and the Son bless us; may God the Holy Spirit bless us. May almighty God, enthroned in heaven, be feared and honored in every land. From our hearts we say: Amen.
Read the original Latin
GUd ware oss barmhertig och mild/ forläne oss nåder sina/ sins andletes liuus aff kerlechs wild/ offuer oss läte gå och skijna/ at wij hans wäghar kenna må/ hans signade wilia lära/ j allom heednom spöria ock så/ Christum wor heel och ära/ all prijs och lofford bära
At tacka må och loffua tich/ o herre gud all tunga/ och hela werlden frögda sich/ med lust och glädi siunga/ at tu til oss hijt kommen est/ then retta domen halla/ och wil thet iuu bekomma som betz/ synder förlåtas alla/ them som her til tich falla
Ja/ tacke gud och loffue tich/ all folk med dygd och froma/ ty iorden bär nuu rijkelig/ sijn fruct med grödha och bloma/ Oss signe fader så ock son/ oss signe gud then helige and/ alzwoldig gud j himels thron/ fructes oc wyrdes j all land/ wij seya aff hiertat Amen.
Early Swedish Hymns companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing