NET Bible | New International Version |
1Come! Let's sing for joy to the LORD! Let's shout out praises to our protector who delivers us! | 1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. |
2Let's enter his presence with thanksgiving! Let's shout out to him in celebration! | 2Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. |
3For the LORD is a great God, a great king who is superior to all gods. | 3For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. |
4The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him. | 4In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. |
5The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land. | 5The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. |
6Come! Let's bow down and worship! Let's kneel before the LORD, our creator! | 6Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; |
7For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him! | 7for 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, |
8He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness, | 8"Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness, |
9where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work. | 9where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did. |
10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, 'These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.' | 10For 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.' |
11So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.'" | 11So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" |
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