The Bible in Basic English BBE
New International Version NIV
1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
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Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.
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Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
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For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.
4 The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.
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In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
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The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.
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Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7 For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!
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for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
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“Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
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where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
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For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’
11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
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So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
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