The Bible in Basic English BBE
Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB
1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
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5 O come, let us sing unto Hashem; let us make a joyful noise to the Tzur 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 His presence with todah, and extol Him with zemirot (joyful songs).
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
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For Hashem is El Gadol, and Melech Gadol above kol elohim (g-ds).
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 yad are the deep places of ha’aretz; the peaks of the harim are His also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
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The yam is His, and He made it; and His hands formed the yabashah (dry land).
6 O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.
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O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Hashem Oseinu (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 Eloheinu; and we are the people of His pasture, and the tzon of His yad. Today if ye will 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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Harden not your lev, as in Merivah, and as in the Yom Massah in the midbar;
9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
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When your avot tested Me, tried Me, and saw My work.
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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Arba’im shanah was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do stray in their lev, and they have no da’as of 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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Unto whom I swore an oath in My wrath that they should not enter into My menuchah.
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