Hymns Based on Psalm 46:1

“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” is Martin Luther’s hymn of confidence in God amid danger, spiritual opposition, and human weakness.

A Shelter in the Time of Storm is a gospel hymn of confidence in Christ as rock, refuge, shade, and secure defense.

By Gracious Powers is Fred Pratt Green's five-stanza English versification of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's seven-stanza German poem Von guten Mächten, written in a Berlin prison in December 1944.

God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength is a four-stanza selection from the 1650 Scottish Psalter's metrical version of Psalm 46, covering the psalm's opening movement in verses 1–5.

God of Our Fathers is an American civic hymn whose deepest movement is prayer rather than national self-congratulation.

Hugh Thomson Kerr's anniversary hymn is a prayer of trust across the full span of human time.

God of the Ages is a modern title and opening-line form of Daniel Crane Roberts's God of Our Fathers, written in 1876 for a local observance of the United States centennial.

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is an American gospel hymn of trust, assurance, and consolation built around the image in Deuteronomy 33:27.

“O God, Our Help in Ages Past” is Isaac Watts's paraphrase of the opening movement of Psalm 90, a meditation on the contrast between God's permanence and human transience.

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past is Isaac Watts’s meditation on Psalm 90, one of Scripture’s most searching reflections on divine eternity and human mortality.

Stand By Me is a gospel hymn of petition and trust in which Charles Albert Tindley places the believer’s troubles within the larger reality of God’s sustaining presence.

We Gather Together is an English-language form of a late-sixteenth-century Dutch thanksgiving hymn shaped by a period of war, political upheaval, and religious conflict.

What a Fellowship, What a Joy Divine, more commonly identified by the title “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms,” is an American gospel hymn of trust, consolation, and assurance.