Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Come, let us praise the Lord! Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!
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Oh come, let us sing to Yahweh. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and sing joyful songs of praise.
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Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with psalms!
3 For the Lord is a mighty God, a mighty king over all the gods.
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For Yahweh is a great God, A great King above all gods.
4 He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest caves to the highest hills.
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In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5 He rules over the sea, which he made; the land also, which he himself formed.
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The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down and worship him; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
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Oh come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
7 He is our God; we are the people he cares for, the flock for which he provides. Listen today to what he says:
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For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
8 "Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah, as they were that day in the desert at Massah.
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Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 There they put me to the test and tried me, although they had seen what I did for them.
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When your fathers tempted me, Tested me, and saw my work.
10 For forty years I was disgusted with those people. I said, "How disloyal they are! They refuse to obey my commands.'
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Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
11 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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Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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