Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält

"Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält" (English: Where God the Lord stands with us not, original: Wo Gott der Herr nicht bey uns helt) is a Lutheran hymn by Justus Jonas, a paraphrase of Psalm 124 in eight stanzas.

[1] The text was first published in the Erfurt Enchiridion, a hymnal of 26 songs including 18 by Luther, "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her" and other hymns by Paul Speratus, "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn" by Elisabeth Cruciger, and others.

Luther himself published his own paraphrase of Psalm 124 in three stanzas, "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit".

The current German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch has as EG 297 a combination of Jonas' stanzas 1, 2, 5 and 6, and Luther's 2 and 3 (as 3 and 4).

Joseph Klug [de] published two melodies for the hymn in the 1535 edition of his hymnal: Zahn Nos.

Hymnal with Jonas's hymn (Zahn 4441 melody)