O come and let us to the Lord Lift up a joyful voice

Verse 1

O come, and let us to the LORD, lift up a joyful voice; And to our rock of safety shout, and make triumphant noise.

Verse 2

Before Him let us early come with thankfulness and praise; And with the joyful noise of hymns aloud our voices raise.

Verse 3

Because this God JEHOVAH is, exceeding great and high; And a great King above all GODS, in power and majesty.

Verse 4

All the deep caverns in the earth, are in his mighty hand; The mountains high in all their strength are his, and by Him stand.

Verse 5

To Him the spacious sea belongs, because He made the same; And all the land abroad is his, for it his hand did frame.

Verse 6

O come, and let us all adore, bow down, and on Him call; Come, let us kneel before the LORD, the maker of us all.

Verse 7

Because He is our, God, and we his pasture's people are; And of his hand the sheep, if ye to day his voice will hear;

Verse 8

'O let not, as at Meribah, 'hardness your hearts possess, 'As in the day of Massah they 'did in the wilderness.

Verse 9

'Where your presumptuous ancestors, 'too boldly tempted Me; 'Where they me prov'd, and where my works 'their wondring eyes did see.

Verse 10

'Forty years long I grieved was 'with that rebellious race; 'And said, this people err in heart, 'and will not know my ways.

Verse 11

'So that to them I sware in wrath, 'then kindling in my breast; 'That they should never enter in 'my happy place of rest.