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Psalm 95: Venite, exultemus

Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 724. In the 30-day Psalter it is read on day 19, at Morning Prayer.

1

Come, let us sing to the LORD; *

let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.

2

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *

and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

3

For the LORD is a great God, *

and a great King above all gods.

4

In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *

and the heights of the hills are his also.

5

The sea is his, for he made it, *

and his hands have molded the dry land.

6

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *

and kneel before the LORD our Maker.

7

For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *

Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

8

Harden not your hearts,

as your forebears did in the wilderness, *

at Meribah, and on that day at Massah,

when they tempted me.

9

They put me to the test, *

though they had seen my works.

10

Forty years long I detested that generation and said, *

"This people are wayward in their hearts;

they do not know my ways."

11

So I swore in my wrath, *

"They shall not enter into my rest."

When it is appointed