A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. According to Spurgeon, Psalm 46 is called a "song of holy confidence"; it is also known as "Luther's Psalm", as Martin Luther wrote his popular hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God") as a paraphrase of Psalm 46. Luther's hymn has been quoted in many musical works, both religious and secular, including Bach's cantata "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott", BWV 80. Johann Pachelbel set the psalm in German and Marc-Antoine Charpentier Jean Philippe Rameau in Latin, among many others.