Praise to the Lord, and Warning against Unbelief.

¹O come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord ;

Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving;

Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.

³For the Lord is a great God

And a great King above all gods,

⁴In whose hand are the depths of the earth;

The peaks of the mountains are His also.

⁵The sea is His, for He made it [by His command];

And His hands formed the dry land. [Gen 1:9]

⁶¶O come, let us worship and bow down,

Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

⁷For He is our God

And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.

Today, if you will hear His voice, [Heb 3:7-11]

⁸Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],

And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness, [Ex 17:1-7; Num 20:1-13; Deut 6:16]

⁹“When your fathers tested Me,

They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].

¹⁰“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,

And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,

And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’

¹¹“Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath,

‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’ ” [Heb 4:3-11]