| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdfs:label | - O God our help in ages past
|
| rdfs:comment | - O God, Our Help in Ages Past is a hymn by Isaac Watts that paraphrases Psalm 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 is often sung at festive occasions in England.
|
| dcterms:subject | |
| dbkwik:religion/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| abstract | - O God, Our Help in Ages Past is a hymn by Isaac Watts that paraphrases Psalm 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 is often sung at festive occasions in England. 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.
|
