The Message Bible MSG
English Standard Version ESV
1 Come, let's shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us!
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Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let's march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!
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Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3 And why? Because God is the best, High King over all the gods.
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For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In one hand he holds deep caves and caverns, in the other hand grasps the high mountains.
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In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
5 He made Ocean - he owns it! His hands sculpted Earth!
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The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6 So come, let us worship: bow before him, on your knees before God, who made us!
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Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
7 Oh yes, he's our God, and we're the people he pastures, the flock he feeds. Drop everything and listen, listen as he speaks:
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For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
8 "Don't turn a deaf ear as in the Bitter Uprising, As on the day of the Wilderness Test,
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do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.
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when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
10 For forty years they watched me at work among them, as over and over they tried my patience. And I was provoked - oh, was I provoked! 'Can't they keep their minds on God for five minutes? Do they simply refuse to walk down my road?'
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For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways."
11 Exasperated, I exploded, 'They'll never get where they're headed, never be able to sit down and rest.'"
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Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest."
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