Let Us Sing Songs of Praise

¹Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;

let us fmake a joyful noise to gthe rock of our salvation!

²Let us hcome into his presence with thanksgiving;

let us fmake a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

³For the Lord is ia great God,

and a great King jabove all gods.

⁴In his hand are the depths of the earth;

the heights of the mountains are his also.

⁵The sea is his, for khe made it,

and his hands formed kthe dry land.

⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

let us lkneel before the Lord, our mMaker!

⁷For he is our nGod,

and we are the people of his opasture,

and the sheep of his hand.

pToday, if you qhear his voice,

⁸rdo not harden your hearts, as at sMeribah,

as on the day at tMassah in the wilderness,

⁹when your fathers put me to the utest

and put me to the proof, though they had seen my vwork.

¹⁰wFor forty years I loathed that generation

and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,

and they have not known xmy ways.”

¹¹Therefore I yswore in my wrath,

“They shall not enter zmy rest.”

Worship in the Splendor of Holiness

¹aOh sing to the Lord ba new song;

sing to the Lord, all the earth!

²Sing to the Lord, bless his name;

ctell of his salvation from day to day.

³Declare his glory among the nations,

his marvelous works among all the peoples!

⁴For dgreat is the Lord, and egreatly to be praised;

he is to be feared above fall gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,

but the Lord gmade the heavens.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before him;

hstrength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to the Lord, O ifamilies of the peoples,

jascribe to the Lord glory and strength!

⁸Ascribe to the Lord kthe glory due his name;

bring lan offering, and mcome into his courts!

⁹Worship the Lord in nthe splendor of holiness;1

otremble before him, all the earth!

¹⁰Say among the nations, p“The Lord reigns!

Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved;

he will qjudge the peoples with equity.”

¹¹Let rthe heavens be glad, and let sthe earth rejoice;

let tthe sea roar, and all that fills it;

¹²let uthe field exult, and everything in it!

Then shall all vthe trees of the forest sing for joy

¹³before the Lord, for he comes,

for he comes wto judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness,

and the peoples in his faithfulness.