Trust
Our God, Our Help In Ages Past
- Words:
- Isaac Watts, 1719. Music: 'St. Anne' William Croft, 1708.
- Setting:
- composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6
- 1Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
- 2Under the shadow of Thy throneThy saints have dwelt secure;Sufficient is Thine arm alone,And our defense is sure.
- 3Before the hills in order stood,Or earth received her frame,From everlasting Thou art God,To endless years the same.
- 4Thy Word commands our flesh to dust,'Return, ye sons of men:'All nations rose from earth at first,And turn to earth again.
- 5A thousand ages in Thy sightAre like an evening gone;Short as the watch that ends the nightBefore the rising sun.
- 6The busy tribes of flesh and blood,With all their lives and cares,Are carried downwards by the flood,And lost in following years.
- 7Time, like an ever rolling stream,Bears all its sons away;They fly, forgotten, as a dreamDies at the opening day.
- 8Like flowery fields the nations standPleased with the morning light;The flowers beneath the mower's handLie withering ere 'tis night.
- 9Our 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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- The words are in 3 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, St Anne, is in 995 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.