Sheep Story

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('Come ye faithful, raise the anthem')

Psalm 95

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1. O come let us to the LORD sing

Praises from each heart now ring

Joyful noise make, acclamation

He the rock of salvation

Let us come before Him thankful

He will greet us, one and all

 

2. Make a joyful noise now, psalms bring

All that has breath, every thing

For the LORD, a great God is He

Great King above all gods be

In His hands are the deep places

Of the earth, e'en all races

 

3. The strength of the hills is His too

He creates all ,does renew

The sea is His, and He made it

His hands made dry land, each bit

O come let us bow down, worship

Kneel, and praise with joyful lips

 

4. For He is our God, and we be

People of His pasture, see

And the sheep of His hand, we say

He our good Shepherd for aye (ever)

Today if you will hear His voice

Make Him now your loving choice

 

5. Harden not your hearts, as in past

People's faithfulness not last

But the LORD they did provoke sore

Tempted Him so, more and more

In the wilderness they wandered

Proved, tested Him, undeterred

 

6. Forty years the LORD He was grieved

Murmurings He heard, received

And said, 'tis a generation

That err in heart, whole nation

And they had not the LORD's ways known

Though He there to them had shown

 

7. And so the word pronounced, spoken

This His displeasure's token

That He swore in His wrath truly

To them, that they should not be

Partakers of His rest, for they

Did not follow Him alway