NET Bible | International Standard 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 joyfully to the LORD! Let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation. |
2Let's enter his presence with thanksgiving! Let's shout out to him in celebration! | 2Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us shout with songs of praise to him. |
3For the LORD is a great God, a great king who is superior to all gods. | 3For the LORD is an awesome God; a great king above all divine beings. |
4The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him. | 4He holds in his hand the lowest parts 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 that he made belongs to him, along with the dry land that his hands formed. |
6Come! Let's bow down and worship! Let's kneel before the LORD, our creator! | 6Come! Let us worship and bow down; let us kneel in the presence of the LORD, who made us. |
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 and the flock in his care. If only you would listen to his voice today, |
8He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness, | 8do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on 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 tested me, even though they had seen my awesome deeds. |
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 loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood 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 in my anger I declared an oath: "They are not to enter my place of rest." |
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