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The Book of Psalms in English Metre

The Newest Version Fitted to the Common Tunes. By Charles Darby

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Come let us sing unto the Lord,
With loud and chearful voice:
And to our Saviour and our rock,
In pleasant songs rejoyce.

Let us before his presence come,
And psalms of praises sing:
For he alone is God of Gods,
The great and mighty King.

The deepest vales, and highest hills,
Were formed by his hand:
'Tis he alone whose mighty power,
Hath made both sea and land.

Come let us bow before the Lord,
And to our maker fall:
He is our God, and we his flock,
And he doth feed us all.

To day; if ye will hear his voice,
Then be not obstinate,

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As in the provocation once,
In that temptation great.

When in the wilderness of old,
Your fathers tempted me,
And did my power in question call,
Though they my works did see.

Full forty years I grieved was
With that rebellious race:
And said they are perverse in heart,
And have not known my ways.

And therefore with a solemn oath,
I did in wrath protest,
That none of them should ever come
Into my land of rest.