1   
Come, let us praise the Lord!
  Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!

2   
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
  and sing joyful songs of praise.

3   
For the Lord is a mighty God,
  a mighty king over all the gods.

4   
He rules over the whole earth,
  from the deepest caves to the highest hills.

5   
He rules over the sea, which he made;
  the land also, which he himself formed.

6   
Come, let us bow down and worship him;
  let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

7   
He is our God;
  we are the people he cares for,
  the flock for which he provides.

7   
Listen today to what he says:

8   
“Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah,
  as they were that day in the desert at Massah. ^note

9   
There they put me to the test and tried me,
  although they had seen what I did for them. ^note

10   
For forty years I was disgusted with those people.
  I said, ‘How disloyal they are!
  They refuse to obey my commands.’

11   
I was angry and made a solemn promise:
  ‘You will never enter the land
  where I would have given you rest.’” ^{note note}

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