Venite exultemus. An invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice. Praise of a canticle for David himself.

[1] Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. [2] Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. [3] For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. [4] For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his. [5] For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

[6] Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us. [7] For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. [8] Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: [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. [10] Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

[11] And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.