New Revised Standard NRS
The Message Bible MSG
1 O 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 the dry land, which his hands have formed.
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He made Ocean - he owns it! His hands sculpted Earth!
6 O 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. O that today you would listen to 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 ancestors tested me, 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 whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard 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 in my anger I swore, "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.'"
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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