Psalm 95
Words: The Psalter of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, 1887 ed.
There is also a Long Metre version of this Psalm on this page
1 O come, let us, in songs to God,
Our cheerful voices raise,
In joyful shouts let us the Rock
Of our salvation praise.
2 Before his presence let us come
With praise and thankful voice;
Let us sing psalms to him with grace,
And make a joyful noise.
3 For God, a mighty God, and King,
Above all gods he is.
The depths of earth are in his hands
The strength of hills is his.
4 To him the spacious sea belongs,
For he the same did make;
The dry land also from his hands
Its form at first did take.
5 O come, and let us worship aim,
Let us bow down withal,
And on our knees, before the Lord
Our Maker, let us fall.
6 Because he only is our God;
And we the people are
Of his own pasture, and the sheep
Of his almighty care.
7 To-day, if ye his voice will hear,
Your hearts then harden not;
As they in desert did provoke
And tempt his anger hot.
8 Your fathers did me tempt and prove
They did my working see;
And for the space of forty years
This race hath grievèd me.
9 I said, this people errs in heart,
My ways they do not know:
To whom I swore in wrath, that to
My rest they should not go.
1 O come, and let us sing to God,
The rock of our salvation laud;
Let us in psalms our tongues employ;
Before him render thanks with joy;
The Lord is great whose praise we sing,
Above all gods a mighty King.
2 The vast deep places of the land,
And strength of hills, are in his hand;
The sea is his, he gave it birth,
His hands prepared the solid earth:
O come, and let us worship now,
Before the Lord our Maker bow.
3 He is our God, we are the sheep
His hand doth feed and safely keep;
If ye his voice will hear to-day,
Then harden not your hearts, as they
Who in the wilderness beheld
His mighty works, and yet rebelled.
4 Your fathers there my works did see,
But still they proved and tempted me.
For forty years ! did them bear;
I said, in heart and ways they err;
To whom in wrath I did protest
They shall not see my promised rest.
