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1 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
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Come, let's shout praises to God, raise the roof for the Rock who saved us!
2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
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Let's march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
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And why? Because God is the best, High King over all the gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
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In one hand he holds deep caves and caverns, in the other hand grasps the high mountains.
5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
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He made Ocean - he owns it! His hands sculpted Earth!
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
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So come, let us worship: bow before him, on your knees before God, who made us!
7 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,
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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:
8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
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"Don't turn a deaf ear as in the Bitter Uprising, As on the day of the Wilderness Test,
9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
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when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.
10 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. ”
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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?'
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest. ”
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Exasperated, I exploded, 'They'll never get where they're headed, never be able to sit down and rest.'"
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.