My Favourite Hymn For My Birthday Today

 

O God, my Help in ages past

My Hope for years to come

My Shelter from the stormy blast

And my Eternal Home

Beneath the Shadow of Thy Throne

Thy son has dwelt secure

Sufficient is Thine Arm alone

And my Defence is sure

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 keeps 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

O God my Help in ages past

My Hope for years to come

Be Thou my Guard while troubles last

And my Eternal Home