There is always Christopher Idle's metric paraphrase "God we praise thee, God we bless thee"

A different version may be found in the St. Pius X hymnal, #46.

I must confess, as one who is clean washed of any unseemly bias, and absent any stain of his cousin, prejudice, as one shorn, shriven, of all favouritism, whose fairmindedness is wtihout blemish, that the Ordinariate version cannot be bettered in heaven or in earth. There does not exist a more singable, graced, and poetic casting of Remigius' sublime paean into the English tongue than that set by such inspired masters of the musical craft as Gibbons, Tallis, Howells, and Britten, than that found in the Ordinariate's Use and its parent partrimony. A more self-evident truth has yet to appear on this blessed earth, this forested globe on which we are privileged to trace our pilgrimage way, to fashion our wayfaring home.

If there were any doubt clouding the mind of some unfortunate soul, the example provided with such kindness and grace for us by NihilNominus should dispel it even as Apollo's bright and stallioned car casts into far off darkness all those nether-world realms of stygian gloom.

Albeit it uses an abbreviated form, I've liked Healey Willan's setting, which uses the traditional Anglican/Ordinariate text.

Agreeing with MJO's assessment of the BoDW-Anglican translation, I am forever moved by the setting as found in The Hymnal 1940, with Anglican chant by E. G. Monk and W. Croft. To me this is the quintessential congregational setting.

For a change of pace, I just finished this edition, backdating the notation to work for our Compline Choirs. It is for men, a cappella, AATB and has that same through composed chant style i appreciate in Psalm settings. I guess it would work up a minor third with mixed voice. We will sing this on our May 7th Compline.
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The translation which has been recommended here is actually from the Book of Common Prayer.

http://www.bcponline.org/
Easiest way to find is to look up Daily Morning Prayer: Rite One and Ctrl+F for "We Praise Thee, O God"

I am forever moved by the setting as found in The Hymnal 1940, with Anglican chant by E. G. Monk and W. Croft. To me this is the quintessential congregational setting.

A comment that inspired me to try pointing the Italian text for domestic use and also suggesting to our maestro.

Is there a well executed recording of this available online somewhere, for illustrative purposes? I haven’t found anything myself so far. Besides which, I’m probably not the best person to say whether it was well done.

>> There is just something about all those 'you thises and thats' that is utterly lacking in grace and has an air of presumptuous and froward respectlessness. What to do about modern usage, though, is indeed a problem with this pronoun.

Agreed !!! I have often wondered why English usage cannot embrace both You and Thou, along the same lines as the "tu" and "usted".

I wonder if I could ask some pointing advice for my Italian here? I originally pointed the last line as follows:

Tu sei la nostra speranza, non sa-|remo con-|fusi in e-|terno.

But having tried it out a few times, it seems a rather abrupt way to end the hymn. I’m wondering whether it might be better to end:

non saremo confusi |in e-|ter-|no.

This actually seems closer to the English version provided (never |be con-|found-|ed), but I don’t want to inadvertently do something horrific and Anglican-thump-inducing, so I thought it might be best to check.

Many thanks. I think I’ve tended towards the first solution, generally. It’s only at the end that I had my doubts, in the absence of a decisive, closing “Amen”.