Praise to the LORD, and Warning against Unbelief.

1O come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;

Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

2Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving;

Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.

3For the LORD is a great God

And a great King above all gods,

4In whose hand are the depths of the earth;

The peaks of the mountains are His also.

5The sea is His, for He made it [by His command];

And His hands formed the dry land.

6O come, let us worship and bow down,

Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

7For He is our God

And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.

Today, if you will hear His voice,

8Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],

And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,

9“When your fathers tested Me,

They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].

10“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,

And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,

And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’

11“Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath,

‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’”