The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
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 praise the Lord! Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!
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 sing joyful songs of praise.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
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For the Lord is a mighty God, a mighty king over all the gods.
4 The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.
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He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest caves to the highest hills.
5 The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
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He rules over the sea, which he made; the land also, which he himself formed.
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 and worship him; 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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He is our God; we are the people he cares for, the flock for which he provides. Listen today to what he says:
8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
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"Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah, as they were that day in the desert at Massah.
9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
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There they put me to the test and tried me, although they had seen what I did for them.
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 disgusted with those people. I said, "How disloyal they are! They refuse to obey my commands.'
11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
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I was angry and made a solemn promise: "You will never enter the land where I would have given you rest.' "
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.