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'''O God, Our Help in Ages Past''' is a hymn by [[Isaac Watts]] and that paraphrases [[Psalm90]] 90. It originally consisted of nine stanzas. In present usage, however, the hymn is usually limited to stanzas one, two, three, five and nine. In 1738, [[John Wesley]] in his hymnal, ''Psalms and Hymns'', changed the first line of the text from "Our God" to "O God."
The hymn was originally part of ''The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament'', published by Watts in 1719. In this book he paraphrased in [[Christian]] verse the entire psalter with the exception of twelve Psalms which he felt were unsuited for Christian usage.
The hymn tune "St. Anne" (CM 86.86) to which the text is most often sung was composed by [[William Croft]] in 1708. It first appeared anonymously in the ''Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms, 6th edition'' in 1708.
{{YouTube Video|youtube=asrwlIxLeko|title=Westminister Abbey - Oh God Our Help In Ages Past|}}
==Lyrics==
==External Links==
*[http://www.hymnswithoutwords.com/downloads.php?cat_id=13 hymns/O_God_our_help_in_ages_past Free recording available in MP3 format for use in public or private worship from hymnswithoutwords.com]
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