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v1
Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh; let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
v2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him.
v3
For Yahweh is the ^[The Hebrew does not have the definite article used twice in the translation of this verse] great God, and the great king over all gods,
v4
in whose hand are the unexplored places ^[Or “the deep places”] of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his,
v5
to whom belongs the sea that he made, ^[Hebrew “and he made it”] and the dry land that his hands formed.
v6
Come in, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.
v7
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today ^[Literally “The day”] if you will hear his voice: ^[Or “If only you would hear his voice today”]
v8
“Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
v9
when your ancestors ^[Or “fathers”] tried me. They put me to the test, even though they had seen my work.
v10
For forty years I loathed that generation, and said, ‘They are a people whose heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.‘
v11
Therefore I swore in my anger, ‘They shall surely not enter into my rest.‘”