Introduction
Words: From The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 256, alt.
Music: St. Peter (Reinagle) Alexander R. Reinagle, 1836 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Psalm 95:1
Words: From The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 256, alt.
Music: St. Peter (Reinagle) Alexander R. Reinagle, 1836 (🔊 pdf nwc).
O come and sing to the God, the Lord,
To Him our voices raise;
Let us in our most joyful songs
The Lord, our Savior, praise.
Before His presence let us come
With praise and thankful voice;
Let us sing joyful psalms to Him,
With grateful hearts rejoice.
The Lord Our God is King of kings,
Above all gods His throne;
The depths of earth are in His hand,
The mountains are His own.
To Him the spacious sea belongs,
He made its waves and tides;
And by His hand the rising land
Was formed and still abides.
O come and, bowing down to Him,
Our worship let us bring;
O let us praise the gracious Lord,
Our maker and our king.
A version from the 1650 Scottish Psalter:
O come, let us sing to the Lord,
To Him our voices raise;
With joyful noise let us the rock
Of our salvation praise.
Let us before His presence come
With praise, and thankful voice;
Let us sing psalms to Him with grace,
And make a joyful noise.
For God’s a great God, and great king;
Above all gods He is.
The depths of earth are in His hands;
The heights of hills are His.
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.
O come, and let us worship Him;
Let us bow down withal,
And on our knees before the Lord,
Our maker, let us fall.