Psalm 96 Litany

Here’s a litany which comes from Carolyn Brown’s Worshipping with Children website.  If your worshipping community doesn’t have a choir, consider using two leaders and congregation instead.

Psalm 96: 1-9,10-13

Leader:            O sing to the Lord a new song!

Choir:               Sing to the Lord, all the earth!

People:            Sing to the Lord, bless the Lord’s name;
            tell of God’s salvation from day to day.

Leader:            Declare the glory of the Lord among the nations,
                        and God’s marvelous works among all the peoples.

Choir:               For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
                        The Lord is to be revered above all gods.

People:            For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
                        but the Lord made the heavens.

Leader:            Oh, the honor and majesty of the Lord’s presence!
                        Oh, the strength and beauty of God’s sanctuary!

Choir:               Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
                        Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

People:            Ascribe to the Lord the glory due God’s name;
                        bring an offering, and come into the courts of the Lord.

Leader:            Worship the Lord in holy splendor;
                        tremble before God, all the earth.

Choir:               Say among the nations, “The Lord is king!

People:            The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved.
                        The Lord will judge the peoples with equity.”

Leader:            Let the heavens be glad,

Choir:               Let the earth rejoice;

People:            Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;

Leader:            Let the fields exult, and everything in them.

Choir:               Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy
                     before the Lord; for the Lord is coming,
                        for God is coming to judge the earth.

All:                   The Lord will judge the world with righteousness,
                        and the peoples with truth.

— based on the New Revised Standard Version and Book of Common Worship (PCUSA and CPC).  Posted on Carolyn Brown’s Worshipping with Children website.