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F3. Venite exultemus

O come and let us now rejoyce,
And sing unto the Lord;
And to our onely Saviour,
Also with one accord.
O let us come before his face,
With inward reverence,
Confessing all our former sins,
And that with diligence.
To thank him for his benefits,
Alwais distributing;
Wherefore to him right joyfully
In Psalmes now let us sing.
And that because that God alone
Is Lord magnificent,
And else above all other gods,
A King omnipotent.

His people doth not he forsake
At any time or tide;
And in his hands are all the casts
Of all the world so wide.
And with his loving countenance
He looketh every where;
And doth behold the tops of all
The mauntaines farre and neare.

The sea and all that is therein,
Are his, for he them made:
And else his hand hath fashioned
The earth which doth not fade.
O come therefore and worship him,
And down before him fall:
And let us kneele before the Lord,
The which hath made us all.

He is our God, our Lord and King
And we his people are:
His flock, and sheep of his pasture,
Of whom he taketh care.
This day if ye will heare his voice,
Then harden not your heart:
As in the bitter murmuring,
When ye were in desert.

Which thing was of their ngeligence,
Committed in the time
Of trouble in the wildernesse,
A great and grievous crime.
Whereas your fathers tempted me,
And tr'd me every way:
They proved me and saw my works,
What I could do or say.

These forty years I have been griev'd
With this generation:
And evermore I said they er'd
In their imagination,
Wherewith their hearts were sore cumbred
Long time and many daies:
Wherefore I said assuredly,
They have not known my waies.

To whom I in mine anger swore,
That they should not be blest,
Nor see my joy celestiall,
Nor enter in my rest.

Gloria Patri:
All laud and praise be to the Lord,
O that of might art most:
To God the Father and the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost,
As it in the beginning was,
for ever heretofore:
And is now at this present time,
and shall be evermore.

Text Information

• First Line: O come and let us now rejoyce
• Title: Venite exultemus
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1640
• Scripture:
  Psalm 95
• Notes: Sing this as the Benedictus

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