WORSHIP >> OPENING OF WORSHIP
SDAH 63
O come, let us sing to the Lord,
Come let us every one
A joyful noise make to the Rock
Of our salvation.
Text
1
O come, let us sing to the Lord,
Come let us every one
A joyful noise make to the Rock
Of our salvation.
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.
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.
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.
5
O come, bow down and worship Him,
And kneeling, humbly pray,
Come to our Maker and our God,
And hear His voice today.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
Ps 95:1-6
Text Source
Scottish Psalter
Year Published
1650
Hymn Tune
IRISH
Metrical Number
C.M.
Tune Source
from A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems, Dublin / 1749
Theme
OPENING OF WORHIP
Hymn Score
Piano Accompaniment
Notes
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This hymn is a metrical version (see SDAH 160 of the first seven verses of Psalm 95. For comments on the Scottish Psalter, see SDAH 16 and 62.
In S. Powell’s Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems, Dublin, 1749, the tune IRISH was published with some other tunes at the end of the book and was unnamed. Caleb Ashworth named it IRISH TUNE in his Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems, c. 1760.Curiously, in the book Jacobite Relics of Scotland, 1819, it is given as the melody for a little political song, “The Cameronian Cat.” It was not used as a hymn until it surfaced in a Scottish hymnbook in 1793. It was not clear whether IRISH began its life as a folk song or a hymn tune. In Ireland it has long been used with Watts’s “O God, Our Help in Ages Past.”
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