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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Our God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Our shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal home.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Under the shadow of Thy throne

Thy saints have dwelt secure;

Sufficient is Thine arm alone,

And our defense is sure.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Before the hills in order stood,

Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting Thou art God,

To endless years the same.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Thy Word commands

our flesh to dust,

“Return, ye sons of men:”

All nations rose from earth at first,

And turn to earth again.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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A thousand ages in Thy sight

Are like an evening gone;

Short as the watch that

ends the night

Before the rising sun.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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The busy tribes of flesh and blood,

With all their lives and cares,

Are carried downwards by the flood,

And lost in following years.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Time, like an ever rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;

They fly, forgotten, as a dream

Dies at the opening day.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Like flowery fields the nations stand

Pleased with the morning light;

The flowers beneath

the mower’s hand

Lie withering ere ‘tis night.

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O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST

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Our God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Be Thou our guard

while troubles last,

And our eternal home.

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Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

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