Our God Our Help In Ages Past

 

"God is our Refuge and Strength,
mighty and impenetrable to temptation,
a very present and well-proved help in trouble."
Psalm 46:1

Our Refuge and Strength

Morgan Weistling

Our God our Help in ages past,

Our Hope for years to come,

Our Shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal Home:

Before the hills in order stood,

Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting Thou art God,

To endless years the same.

A thousand ages in Thy sight

Are like an evening gone;

Short as the watch that ends the night

Before the rising sun.

Time like an ever rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;

They fly forgotten as a dream

Dies at the opening day.

Our God, our Help in ages past,

Our Hope for years to come,

Be Thou our Guard while life shall last,

And our eternal Home.

Amen

"Our God Our Help In Ages Past"
(1719)
Isaac Watts
(1674-1748)
English Congregational Clergyman
and prolific hymn writer