Religion

Psalm C

by Richard Baxter 1615–1691

From Paraphrase on the Psalms of David in Metre (1692)

Religion

All people that do dwell
Abroad on all the earth,
Make to the Lord a joyful noise,
Praise him with holy mirth.

O serve our glorious Lord
With gladness and with joys;
Before his holy presence come
With chearful singing voice.

Know that the Lord is God,
It's he that did us make,
Not we our selves; us as his flock
And people he doth take.

Enter his gates with thanks,
Into his courts with praise;
Be truly thankful unto him,
And bless his name always.

For God our Lord is good,
His mercies ever sure;
And to all generations
His truth shall still endure.

The Old Metre.

All people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with chearful voice.

Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell
Come ye before him and rejoyce.

The Lord ye know is God indeed,
Without our aid he did us make;
We are his flock, he doth us feed,
And for his sheep he doth us take.

O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto;
Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

For why, the Lord our God is good;
His mercy is for ever sure;
His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

MLA

Baxter, Richard. “Psalm C.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/99/.

Chicago

Baxter, Richard. “Psalm C.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/99/.

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