Christians and Pagans

In researching for my posts on Bonhoeffer I came across two other translations of Bonhoeffer's poem "Christians and Pagans." The version I shared in the last post comes from the Letters and Papers from Prison. Here are two alternative translations:

Christians and Pagans

All go to God in their distress,
Seek help and pray for bread and happiness,
Deliverance from pain, guilt and death.
All do, Christians and others.

All go to God in his distress,
Find him poor, reviled without shelter or bread,
Watch him tortured by sin, weakness, and death.
Christians stand by God in His agony.

God goes to all in their distress,
Satisfies body and soul with His bread,
Dies, crucified for all, Christians and others,
And both alike forgiving.

--from Voices in the Night: The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christians and Pagans

All people go to God in need,
For help and calm and food they plead.
That sickness, guilt and death my cease,
All, Christians and Pagans, pray for peace.

But some turn to God in God's need and dread,
A God poor, despised, without roof or bread.
By sin's harm weakened and by death distressed,
Christians stand steadfast by their God oppressed.

God goes to all in their need and dread,
Their souls' loving grace and their bodies' bread.
By the crucified Lord who for them was slain,
Both Christian and pagan God's pardon gain.

--from A Testament to Freedom