Come Sound His Praise Abroad

This hymn with lyrics by Isaac Watts was first published in The Psalms of Da­vid (1719). It is based on Psalm 95.

With short meter (66 86, SM), tunes that it has been set to include:

• CAMBRIDGE by Ralph Harr­is­on (1784)
• SILVER STREET by Isaac Smith, (approx 1770) - used in Sacred Harp 

Some African congregations have used it with a differnt tune, and with Hallelujah Praise Ye the Lord as a chorus.


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Come, sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing!
Jesus(*) is the sovereign Lord,
The universal King.

He formed the deeps unknown;
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.

Come, worship at his throne;
Come, bow before the Lord:
We are his works, and not our own;
He formed us by his word.

To-day attend his voice,
Nor dare provoke his rod;
Come, as the people of his choice,
And own your gracious God. (*) originally Jehovah