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Psalm 95 is the 95th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation". The Book of Psalms starts the third section of the Hebrew Bible , and, as such, is a book of the Christian Old Testament .
The beginning is a call ("Come") to get together and sing to the Lord, who is described as the one "der uns befreit" (who frees us). The related verse from Psalm 95 reads: "O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation". In Jewish tradition, "salvation" often referred to the exodus from Egypt. The ...
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote , which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel Don Quixote .
For example, the song begins with the heavens who say, "the heavens speak of the glory of God, and of His handiwork the skies tell." (Psalms 19:2) Others describe some characteristic or activity of the speaker, e.g., the book ends with the dogs who say "come, let us prostrate and bend our knees, and kneel before God our maker" (Psalms 95:6).
Ma Tovu (Hebrew for "O How Good" or "How Goodly") is a prayer in Judaism, expressing reverence and awe for synagogues and other places of worship.. The prayer begins with Numbers 24:5, where Balaam, sent to curse the Israelites, is instead overcome with awe at God and the Israelites' houses of worship.
In the Episcopal Church, the Morning Prayer office opens with an invitatory psalm, either the Venite (Psalm 95:1-7, or the entire psalm on Ash Wednesday, Holy Saturday, and all Fridays in Lent) or the Jubilate (Psalm 100). An invitatory antiphon may appear before, or before and after the invitatory psalm.
"Selah" is the name of the second track on the 2019 album Jesus Is King by Kanye West, [17] which West defined as a term meaning "to look back and reflect upon". [18] According to BibleGateway.com, the title is a reference to Psalm 57:6 of the Bible. [19] "Selah" is the name of a song by R&B/Hip-Hop artist Lauryn Hill.
In 1567 English composer Thomas Tallis contributed nine tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter, a collection of vernacular psalm settings intended for publication in a metrical psalter then being compiled for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. They are: Man blest no doubt ; Let God arise in majesty