New Living Translation NLT
The Message Bible MSG
1 Come, let us sing to the LORD ! Let us shout joyfully 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 to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
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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 He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains.
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In one hand he holds deep caves and caverns, in the other hand grasps the high mountains.
5 The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.
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He made Ocean - he owns it! His hands sculpted Earth!
6 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 he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!
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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 The LORD says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did 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 For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.
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when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.
10 For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’
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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 in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of 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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