O Come, Let Us Sing to the Lord

Verse 1

O come, let us sing to the Lord: come, let us ev'ry one A joyful noise make to the Rock of our salvätion.

Verse 2

Let us before his presence come with praise and thankful voice; Let us sing psalms to him with grace, and make a joyful noise.

Verse 3

For God, a great God, and great King, above all gods he is.

Verse 4

Depths of the earth are in his hand, the strength of hills is his.

Verse 5

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.

Verse 6

O come, and let us worship him, let us bow down withal, And on our knees before the Lord our Maker let us fall.

Verse 7

For he's our God, the people we of his own pasture are, And of his hand the sheep; to-day, if ye his voice will hear,

Verse 8

Then harden not your hearts, as in the provocätion, As in the desert, on the day of the tentätion:

Verse 9

When me your fathers tempt'd and proved, and did my working see;

Verse 10

Ev'n for the space of forty years this race hath grievèd me. I said, This people errs in heart, my ways they do not know:

Verse 11

To whom I sware in wrath, that to my rest they should not go.