5 Thus saith the Lord, “how false they prove;
“Forget my power, abuse my love;
“Since they despise my rest, I swear,
“Their feet shall never enter there.”

6 [Look back my soul, with holy dread,
And view those ancient rebels dead;
Attend the offer’d grace to-day,
Nor lose the blessing by delay.

7 Seize the kind promise while it waits,
And march to Zion’s heavenly gates;
Believe, and take the promis’d rest;
Obey, and be for ever blest.]

Psalm 96:1. 1-10. &c.  C. M.
Christ’s first and second coming.

1 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands,
Ye tribes of every tongue;
His new discover’d grace demands
A new and nobler song.

2 Say to the nations, Jesus reigns,
God’s own almighty Son;
His power the sinking world sustains,
And grace surrounds his throne.

3 Let heaven proclaim the joyful day,
Joy thro’ the earth be seen;
Let cities shine in bright array,
And fields in cheerful green.

4 Let an unusual joy surprise
The islands of the sea;
Ye mountains, sink, ye vallies, rise,
Prepare the Lord his way.

5 Behold he comes, he comes to bless
The nations as their God;
To shew the world his righteousness,
And send his truth abroad.

6 But when his voice shall raise the dead,
And bid the world draw near,
How will the guilty nations dread
To see their Judge appear!

Psalm 96:2.  As the 113th Psalm. 
The God of the Gentiles.

1 Let all the earth their voices raise
To sing the choicest psalm of praise,
To sing and bless Jehovah’s name: 
His glory let the heathens know,
His wonders to the nations show,
And all his saving works proclaim.

2 The heathens know thy glory, Lord;
The wondering nations read thy word,
In Britain is Jehovah known: 
Our worship shall no more be paid
To gods which mortal hands have made;
Our Maker is our God alone.

3 He fram’d the globe, he built the sky,
He made the shining worlds on high,
And reigns complete in glory there: 
His beams are majesty and light;
His beauties how divinely bright! 
His temple how divinely fair!

4 Come the great day, the glorious hour,
When earth shall feel his saving power,
And barbarous nations fear his name;
Then shall the race of man confess
The beauty of his holiness,
And in his courts his grace proclaim.

Psalm 97:1. 1-5.  First Part. 
Christ reigning in heaven, and coming to judgment.

1 He reigns; the Lord, the Saviour reigns;
Praise him in evangelic strains;
Let the whole earth in songs rejoice,
And distant islands join their voice.

2 Deep are his counsels and unknown; But grace and truth support his throne:  Tho’ gloomy clouds his ways surround, Justice is their eternal ground.

3 In robes of judgment, lo! he comes, Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the tombs; Before him burns devouring fire, The mountains melt, the seas retire.