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O Come, Let Us Sing to the Lord
Verse 1
O come, let us sing to the Lord,
Come let us every one
A joyful noise make to the Rock
Of our salvation.
Come let us every one
A joyful noise make to the Rock
Of our salvation.
Verse 2
Let us before His presence come
With glad and thankful voice;
Let us sing psalms of praise to Him,
And make a joyful noise.
With glad and thankful voice;
Let us sing psalms of praise to Him,
And make a joyful noise.
Verse 3
For God, a great God and great King,
Above all gods, He is;
The depths of earth are in His hand,
The strength of hills is His.
Above all gods, He is;
The depths of earth are in His hand,
The strength of hills is His.
Verse 4
To Him the ocean vast belongs,
For He the sea did make;
The dry land also from His hands,
Its form at first did take.
For He the sea did make;
The dry land also from His hands,
Its form at first did take.
Verse 5
O come, bow down and worship Him,
And kneeling, humbly pray,
Come to our Maker and our God,
And hear His voice today.
And kneeling, humbly pray,
Come to our Maker and our God,
And hear His voice today.
Watts's paraphrase of Psalm 100, one of his most celebrated psalm-based hymns.