Psalm 95
O come, let us sing out to the Lord
: let us shout in triumph to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his face with thanksgiving
: and cry out to him joyfully in psalms.
For the Lord is a great God
: and a great king above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth
: and the peaks of the mountains are his also.
The sea is his and he made it
: his hands moulded dry land.
Come, let us worship and bow down
: and kneel before the Lord our maker.
For he is the Lord our God
: we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Today if only you would hear his voice
‘Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah :
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness;
‘When your fathers tested me :
put me to proof, though they had seen my works.
‘Forty years long I loathed that generation and said :
“It is a people who err in their hearts,
for they do not know my ways”;
‘Of whom I swore in my wrath :
“They shall not enter my rest.”’
Psalm 96
O sing to the Lord a new song :
sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord and bless his holy name :
proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the nations :
and his wonders among all peoples.
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised :
he is more to be feared than all gods.
As for all the gods of the nations, they are mere idols :
it is the Lord who made the heavens.
Majesty and glory are before him :
beauty and power are in his sanctuary.
Render to the Lord, you families of the nations :
render to the Lord glory and might.
Render to the Lord the honour due to his name :
bring offerings and come into his courts.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness :
let the whole earth stand in awe of him.
Say among the nations that the Lord is king :
he has made the world so firm that it can never be moved;
and he shall judge the peoples with equity.
Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad :
let the sea roar, and all that fills it:
Let the fields rejoice, and everything in them :
then shall all the trees of the wood
shout with joy before the Lord;
For he comes, he comes to judge the earth :
he shall judge the world with righteousness,
and the peoples with his truth.