Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
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 before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with psalms!
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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, 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 deep places of the eretz. The heights of the mountains are also his.
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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, and he made it. 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. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, oh that you would 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 Don't harden your heart, as at Merivah, As in the day of 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 tempted me, Tested me, and saw my work.
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when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.
10 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."
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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 won't enter into 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.'"
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