Common English Bible CEB
The Message Bible MSG
1 Shout triumphantly to the LORD, all the earth!
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On your feet now - applaud God!
2 Serve the LORD with celebration! Come before him with shouts of joy!
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Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence.
3 Know that the LORD is God— he made us; we belong to him. We are his people, the sheep of his own pasture.
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Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.
4 Enter his gates with thanks; enter his courtyards with praise! Thank him! Bless his name!
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Enter with the password: "Thank you!" Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him.
5 Because the LORD is good, his loyal love lasts forever; his faithfulness lasts generation after generation.
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For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.
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