the text has been set to music more than 70 times, including a 1971 version by joseph gelineau, and a setting by in 1976. the most popular melody was written by siegfried fietz in 1970. in the style of neues geistliches lied, he used the last stanza as a refrain, with a different melody in lower range for the verses. it appears in several regional parts of the "evangelischen gesangbuch", and in regional parts of the catholic hymnal "gotteslob", while the main section has the melody by kurt grahl as gl 430.