HYMN #282 If Thou But Trust in God to Guide Thee, Georg Neumark wrote the text and tune in 1657 and Catherine Winkworth translated the text into English in the 19th century. Neumark was inspired to write the hymn out of gratitude for getting a job after a difficult period of destitution and unemployment. Based on Psalm 55:22-23, it was originally entitled, “A Song of Comfort: God will care for and help everyone in His own time.” The chorale tune was particularly well-loved by Bach, as it appears in several of Bach’s compositions, and it also appears in Mendelssohn’s oratorio St. Paul.