Worship and Obedience

1Come! Let us sing joyfully to the LORD!

Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.

2Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;

let us shout with songs of praise to him.

3For the LORD is an awesome God;

a great king above all divine beings.a

4He holds in his hand the lowest parts of the earth

and the mountain peaks belong to him.

5The sea that he made belongs to him,

along with the dry land that his hands formed.

6Come! Let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel in the presence of the LORD, who made us.

7For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture

and the flock in his care.b

If only you would listen to his voice today,

8do not be stubborn like your ancestors werec at Meribah,

as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

9where your ancestors tested me.

They tested me,

even though they had seen my awesome deeds.

10For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said,

“They are a people whose hearts continuously err,

and they have not understood my ways.”

11So in my anger I declared an oath:

“They are not to enter my place of rest.”