Venite exultemus.
An invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice.
Praise of a canticle for David himself.
94:1. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God
our saviour.
94:2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a
joyful noise to him with psalms.
94:3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
94:4. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of
the mountains are his.
94:5. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
land.
94:6. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that
made us.
94:7. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture
and the sheep of his hand.
94:8. To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
94:9. As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the
wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my
works.
94:10. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said:
These always err in heart.
94:11. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that
they shall not enter into my rest.