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1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud 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 him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
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Let's march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!
3 For the LORD is the great God, the 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, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
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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 Come, let us bow down in worship, 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, the flock under his care. Today, if only 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 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,as you did that 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 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
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when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, 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 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never 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.'"
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