"Lob Gott getrost mit Singen" (literally: Praise God confidently with singing) is a Lutheran hymn in German, a paraphrase of the Latin Te Deum, by the Bohemian Brethren.
[3] In English, "Let me be Thine forever" is a translation of Nicolaus Selneccer's 1688 hymn "Lass mich dein sein und bleiben" (lit: Let me be Yours and remain it) by Matthias Loy.
[7] Other hymns to the melody include "Through Jesus' Blood and Merit", a free translation of Simon Dach's "Ich bin bei Gott in Gnaden", and "Redeemed, restored, forgiven" by Henry Williams Baker.
[8] In 1989, a few weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Klaus-Peter Hertzsch, a pastor in Eisenach, used the melody for a song for a wedding of a relative: "Vertraut den neuen Wegen" (Trust the new ways).
[13] Slightly paraphrased as Lobt Gott getrost mit Singen, the beginning is the title of a songbook of 51 popular songs from Evangelisches Gesangbuch, intended for use in services and especially senior citizens' homes.