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.
