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The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150) · c. 1586–1599 (first printed 1823)

Psalm 96 (Cantate Domino)

by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621


Sing, and let the song be new,
Unto him that never endeth
Sing all earth, and all in you.
Sing to God and blesse his name,
Of the help, the health he sendeth,
Day by day new ditties frame.

Make each country know his worth;
Of his actes the wondred story
Paint unto each people forth.
For Jehova greate alone,
All the gods, for awe and glory,
Farre above doth hold his throne.

For but idolls, what are they,
Whom besides mad Earth adoreth?
He the skies in frame did lay:
Grace and Honor are his guides,
Majesty his temple storeth:
Might in guard about him bides.

Kindreds come, Jehova give,
O give Jehova all together,
Force and fame whereso you live.
Give his name the glory fitt:
Take your offrings, get you thither,
Where he doth enshrined sitt.

Goe, adore him in the place
Where his pompe is most displaied:
Earth, O goe with quaking pace,
Goe proclaime Jehova king:
Staylesse world shall now be staied;
Righteous doome his rule shall bring.

Starry roofe, and earthy floore,
Sea and all thy widenesse yieldeth:
Now rejoyce and leape and rore.
Leavy infants of the wood,
Fieldes and all that on you feedeth,
Daunce, O daunce, at such a good.

For Jehova cometh loe!
Loe to raigne Jehova cometh:
Under whome you all shall goe.
He the world shall rightly guide:
Truly as a king becometh,
For the peoples weale provide.

MLA

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 96 (Cantate Domino). Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/52/.

Chicago

Herbert, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The Psalms of David (Psalms 44–150), Psalm 96 (Cantate Domino). Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/pembroke-psalms/52/.

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