"" (Whoever stands under the protection of the Most High) is a Christian hymn in German. The anonymous text, paraphrasing

Psalm 91 Psalm 91 is the 91st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." In Latin, it is known as 'Qui habitat". As a p ...

, appeared first in 1972 in a Protestant hymnal, with a 1537 melody from Michael Vehe's hymnal. It is contained in the Catholic hymnal ''

Gotteslob ''Gotteslob'' ("Praise of God") is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, Luxembourg and Liège, Belgium. First published in Advent 2013, it is the current official hymnal for German-speaki ...

''.

History

"" appeared first in 1972, then in the common Protestant hymnal ''

Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch The Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch (EKG, literally: Protestant church songbook) was the first common hymnal of German-speaking churches in the Protestant state churches (''Landeskirchen'') in Germany and the Protestant churches in Austria. It was ...

'' (EKG). A paraphrase of

, it is written in three stanzas. The associated melody came from the first Catholic hymnal that Michael Vehe published in 1537. The hymn was included in the common German Catholic hymnal ''

'' in 1975, as GL 291, and in the second edition as GL 423, in the section Leben in Gott / Vertrauen und Trost (Life in God / Trust and solace). It is a Psalmlied, a song that can be used instead of a liturgical psalm reading. Johann Paul Zehetbauer composed a four-part setting. Gaël Liardon wrote a

chorale prelude In music, a chorale prelude or chorale setting is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works of J.S. Bach, who wrote 46 ...

for organ. A

chorale cantata A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chorale cantata includes m ...

for choir a cappella by Stephan Rommelspacher was published by

Carus-Verlag Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in Stuttgart. Carus was founded by choral conductor Günter Graulich and his wife Waltraud with an emphasis on choral repertoire. The catalogue currently includes more than 26,00 ...

in 2010, in a collection ''Chorbuch Trauer'' (Choir Book Memorial), aimed at public memorial services in cases of accidents and disasters. Walter Gleißner wrote an organ piece ''Meditation'', published in 2014 by Dohr, in a collection ''Miniaturen für Orgel''. A 2019 collection ''Tagzeitenliturgie mit dem Gotteslob'' for music to observe the

liturgy of the hours The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: ''Liturgia Horarum'') or Divine Office (Latin: ''Officium Divinum'') or ''Opus Dei'' ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, often also referred to as the breviary, of the ...

, initiated by the Diocese of Mainz and published by Carus-Verlag, includes two choral settings of the song and one for organ.

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* {{authority control 1972 songs 20th-century hymns in German