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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.
==External Links==
*[http://www.hymnswithoutwords.com/hymns/O_God_our_help_in _ages_past 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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